Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the United Kingdom last week, Britons were hacking, aching and dying in an outbreak of influenza. This year's flu bug was not the killer of 1918. It was taking its toll mostly from the aged. Nonetheless, it was keeping Britain's gravediggers, many of whom had flu themselves, busy enough. In six weeks flu deaths in England and Wales rose from...
...dying to get themselves buried," complained one Liverpool undertaker. Said a cemetery foreman: "We've got carbide flares rigged up so my men can see to work at night." Druggists were running short of medicine bottles. A tenth of Plymouth's overworked doctors were down with flu themselves...
...Colds are afflictions rather than infections," said ruddy, husky Dr. Kerr flatly. "I do not believe .that a great majority of the diseases of the upper respiratory tract are virus infections like flu or grippe-most of them are 'just colds...
...third midfielder Ripper Lynch's case of the flu is no better today, Bob Baldwin will start in his place. Munro also expects to alternate sophomore goalie Dick Thomas with Sid Clarke...
...series of ankle injuries and an epidemic of flu landed the Crimson ski team in last place in the National Intercollegiate Ski Championships. Ten teams of the best college skiers competed in the four-event meet which was held at Arapahoe Basin near Denver on March 31, April...