Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation who, if he escaped these symptoms, did not know someone who had not. Nevertheless, due to its short duration and apparent lack of killing power, health officials in all principal U. S. cities unanimously hesitated to dignify the widespread respiratory malady by describing it as an influenza epidemic...
...York City, every municipal and most private hospitals were jammed with influenza patients, yet Dr. Samuel Frant, the city's chief epidemiologist, coolly announced: "The prevalence of influenza at present is very similar to that frequently experienced at this season of the year." Indianapolis factories and offices were crippled by workers' absences, but it was not felt that the disease necessitated municipal action. Boston was not officially exercised over "a slight gain" in respiratory diseases for the week, nor was Minneapolis alarmed about its "numerous colds and some grippe." "Nothing in the way of an influenza epidemic," cheerfully...
...Sunday the Queen had recovered enough from influenza to attend church with His Majesty and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, but to bed with influenza went the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, while the Duchess of Kent remained secluded in expectation of her child (TIME, Oct. 19). In their absence H. M. Mary, the Queen Mother, H. M. the King, H. M. the Queen, and H. R. H. the Duke of Kent bore the brunt of what His Majesty in his accession address called the "heavy tasks" of the Royal Family...
...there were cheers for His Majesty among brokers on the Stock Exchange. The King sent to have read for him in Parliament an address in which he specifically promised "to uphold the honor of the realm." Her Majesty could not go to church and has been staying indoors with "influenza" for some time. Happy rumors rippled in London that Queen Elizabeth may have something better than influenza. His Majesty was always officially Albert (familiarly "Bertie") up to last week but Baldwin the Magnificent (see p. 17) was too cute to bring him on as anything except King George VI. England...
Animals In 1918 and 1919, millions of men, women and children died from a worldwide epidemic of influenza. During the same period many U. S. pigs also died from an epidemic of a disease which duplicated all the symptoms of influenza in human beings. Stricken swine developed low fever, cough, bronchopneumonia. Last week the Rockefeller Institute's experts, Drs. Richard Edwin Shope & Thomas Francis Jr. declared, in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, that their researches prove "that swine were originally infected with influenza from man in 1918." Human flu has weakened since 1918, pig flu continues unabated...