Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...panic resulted from the epidemic of mild influenza which for three weeks has spread eastward from California across the continent. Although more than 40,000 people were officially reported sick with the disease and another 200,000 estimated so, the deaths were few. This epidemic has revealed no such virulence as that of 1918. Nonetheless, it was a wise and (with Christmas holidays so near) a convenient move for scores of schools and colleges to close classes last week. Sensible people followed medical advice-to avoid crowds and ill-ventilated places, to exercise well in the open air and sunlight...
...spread of the epidemic and the prevention of danger to those who are affected by it is entirely dependent on the care exercised by those who are taken ill with Influenza. Trued Influenza is characterized by a sudden onset of illness with fever and general body aches and pains, particularly backache and aching behind the eyes. This may be associated with nose and throat symptoms...
...having illness suggestive of the above are urged to report to the Medical Adviser at Wadsworth House or to send for him to call upon them in order that preventive measures may promptly taken. This is urged particularly in the case of men returning to Cambridge from places where Influenza is now epidemic...
...influenza epidemic, which is spreading East from beginnings in California and which resulted in the closing of the University of Missouri and other Middle Western schools on Tuesday, is due to arrive in Boston within a week, according to Dr. H. A. Christian, professor of Medicine in the Harvard Medical School...
...areas of the Rhineland, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Wales and England. Seldom has Death come more awesomely. The storm was worthy even of George V, King and Emperor, defender of the faith, who lay all week in his great bed at Buckingham Palace, silently and bravely fighting the bacilli of influenza and pleurisy...