Word: flu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disappeared. Only two cases were reported in the U.S. in 1997, in contrast to 550 in 1980. The appearance of even two cases suggests that despite warnings on bottle labels, parents are still giving kids aspirin for viral diseases. That's a no-no, especially with chickenpox or the flu...
...everyone has been quick to give up on the shift, which for more than a week had investors rotating into the stocks of chemicals, machinery and paper companies, which stand to benefit as the world economy recovers from the Asian flu. "What started two weeks ago started too fast and was too extreme," says Jeffrey Warantz, strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. "But it's not over." Warantz's research shows that it isn't just tech stocks or large consumer stocks like Merck and Wal-Mart that are rising now. Several weeks ago, 81% of the stocks that he tracks...
RECOVERING. LOUIS FARRAKHAN, 65, controversial leader of the Nation of Islam; from prostate-cancer treatment and the flu; in Chicago. He plans to take a four-month sabbatical from the organization...
Salk's major patron at Michigan, however, proved to be no one man but the whole U.S. Army, which needed a flu vaccine at once to help win World War II and was happy to complete Salk's education in speed under pressure. After that, it was a snap for him to set up his own peacetime lab at the University of Pittsburgh and equip it to the gills for the Great Crusade--the one that every immunologist in the world then had his eye on--against the Great White Whale itself, poliomyelitis...
Salk and Sabin came from the two competing schools of vaccine research. Sabin, like Louis Pasteur, believed the way to produce immunity was to create a mild infection with a "live" but crippled virus, and he concocted his competing vaccine accordingly. Salk, from his flu-fighting days, knew the immune system could be triggered without infection, using deactivated, or "killed," viruses. And, as it turned out, his quick-and-dirty killed viruses were better suited to a crash program than Sabin's carefully attenuated live ones. By 1954, Salk and Francis were ready to launch the largest medical experiment...