Word: flu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who contract the disease initially experience flu-like symptoms. The disease progresses extremely rapidly, though, and life-threatening symptoms--such as inflammation of the brain and the spinal cord--can appear within a matter of hours...
...judicious in using the press due to the fatigue factor, especially with [Clemente] and [Prasse-Freeman] out and since [junior forward Bryan] Parker had the flu," Sullivan said. "So with our lack of depth, we didn't want to make our big men run too much, which is what you force them to do when you press...
...still not convinced of a general improvement in the human condition, pick up a copy of Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $25). Kolata, a science writer for the New York Times, resurrects a year when the worst could and did happen: at least 20 million and possibly more than 40 million people throughout the world took sick and died...
Those familiar with previous accounts of the 1918 contagion (Richard Collier's The Plague of the Spanish Lady or Alfred Crosby's America's Forgotten Pandemic) may be surprised to learn that science has yet to discover what made that particular flu virus so deadly. Though no longer a threat, the mass killer is, so to speak, still at large...
...council presidential candidate says he thinks it might be the flu. He resolves to wait until all his campaign volunteers have assembled, go off to put up posters, and then to go back home to rest...