Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sholem Postel, assistant director of the University Health Services, describes the flu as a mild one-week disease which would have been passed off as a bad cold if it did not get the name "Hong Kong...
...spirit of protest leaped from country to country like an ideological variant of Hong Kong flu. Protest marches, sit-ins and riots attacked every kind of structure, society and regime...
...problem in the early part of the flight went unreported for several hours. Although the astronauts had been inoculated against the Hong Kong flu, Borman soon became ill with another variety that caused him to vomit and suffer diarrhea. Borman elected not to discuss his illness over the public communications channel. As a result, NASA's medical staff did not hear about his problem until Houston technicians finally played the tape...
...theory, admits Gajdusek, is to call into question much of the traditional thinking of virologists. Generations of researchers have been accustomed to thinking of viruses as microbes that behave somewhat predictably. Typically, as in the case of measles, German measles, chicken pox, the common cold and influenza-of the Hong Kong variety, or whatever-they seem to appear from nowhere, spend a few days, or at most two or three weeks, incubating in the victim's body, then cause a brief, feverish illness...
...Probably the greatest gainer was Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines, only the eleventh biggest U.S. airline. Its new runs to Samoa, Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand will make it a sizable inter national carrier. Another big gainer was TWA, which was awarded rights to fly from the U.S. to Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places. By linking its new Pacific runs with its existing transatlantic ones, which go as far as Hong Kong, TWA will become a round-the-world air line...