Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class the stars fell on," it produced 58 general officers from 164 graduates, including Omar Bradley (kept away from homecoming by a case of flu), James Van Fleet and George Stratemeyer...
...news. Said Dr. Antonina Shubladze of Moscow's Institute of Virology: the Russians have an effective treatment for Asian influenza, to be taken like snuff. The nonprescription remedy costs one ruble (officially 25?) for a three-day supply, but only one sniff is needed if the flu victim takes it promptly the day he begins to ache and sniffle. Explained Dr. Shubladze: the influenza virus is inoculated into horses, which are later bled. Serum from their blood is dried and ground into a powder to make the antiflu snuff...
...Public Health Service experts said politely that horse-serum preparations can cause severe reactions, that it is hard to evaluate a treatment for so short-lived a disease as Asian flu. By coincidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a strong warning the same day against any false and misleading claims by drug manufacturers "that products of limited benefit can effectively prevent or cure Asian flu ... The public should be on guard...
Eddie Martin and Willie Thompson are both convalescing after attacks of flu. Like Reider, they have been unable to run hard in recent practices, and just how well they can do today remains very much in doubt...
...varsity's stiffest opposition should come from Cornell, Yale, and Army. Cornell has lost only to the Elis--and this on a day when its two best runners, Mike Midler and Dave Eckel, were stricken with flu. The Crimson, of course, beat Yale last week, but the meet was very close, and might well have gone the other...