Word: flu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They have witnessed the cesspool better known as the women's washroom in the Science Center, the Barker Center reading room during flu season, the many generations of dust bunnies lurking in the corners of their own rooms. To the naked and uninformed eye, Harvard may be as sterile as Banana Republic. But how does it hold up to a plate of glossy agar...
...network (owned by Time Warner, the parent company of this magazine) swept up exclusive rights to the top-rated animated TV series. Warner released the Pokemon movie (see review above), which opened on Wednesday last week and saw thousands of children calling in sick from school with the "Pokemon flu." Warner ran out of the trading cards it was giving away to ticket buyers. Meanwhile, Burger Kings in California and Texas had toy shortages for their Pokemon giveaways, leaving scores of children in tears...
...time between a flu infection and symptoms--chills, sore throat and fever...
...conventional wisdom says no, but by mid-century that assessment--along with the sniffles--may well be ancient history. Colds are considered incurable today because it would take months to come up with a vaccine for every new strain. That's fine for the flu, which breeds in animals and only jumps over to humans every year or two. But colds mutate even while they're infecting you, and new strains pop up so often that by the time drugmakers create a vaccine against one variation, the serum is already out of date...
...flu may yet point the way toward a cold cure though. Scientists at the University of Ghent, in Belgium, have found a protein called M2 that seems to be present in virtually every flu strain known to man. Using that knowledge, they have made a vaccine that they think could protect against all flus--old, new and those not yet in existence...