Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coke carton and coughed. "So I got sent to a hospital over there. Nearly got the flu. Most of us did. They had me in a bed by a window. I could see them building pine boxes outside. Rows of boxes waiting for us." He smiles. "I used to wonder whether the carpenter was building mine while I watched...
Gaunt and pale from recurrent flu attacks and daily overwork, President Arturo Frondizi battled his way through the worst crisis in his regime's troubled three months of life. He won a breather last week mainly because the going got rough enough to alarm even the Peronistas who had started all the trouble...
Pale from fatigue and the lingering effects of flu, President Frondizi began ticking off his answers to the nation's pressing problems. The address, his first clear statement of position since the Feb. 23 election, added up to a moderate, vigorous program-a heartening swing away from the nationalist, leftist line that he used to gain key votes from the supporters of ousted Dictator Juan...
...fast-spreading diarrhea. From the eyes (conjunctivitis) they can spread to bone (osteomyelitis). If staph spread to the inner surface of the heart chambers, they can cause heart failure and death. In the lungs they are a potent source of pneumonia; many of the pneumonia deaths following Asian flu are laid to staph...
...Specialist. In Senago, Italy, Alfonso Maria Donadio, 37, who had collected fees estimated at $160,000 by posing as a physician specializing in Asian flu, was finally tracked down by police, who found him in bed with Asian flu...