Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course will do all they can (which is little enough) to help in the present crisis. Their experimentation really will benefit the future. While in actual fact the epidemic itself, in virulence, incidence, after effects (in this form) or mortality is no more dreadful than an influenza epidemic. Yet it will rival beer as the disease that made St. Louis famous...
Still a perfectionist but not so optimistic as he has been, Author Wells says things will get worse before they get better. In 1935 and 1937 will come world-wide influenza epidemics. By 1942. gas masks, metal hats and epaulets will be weekday wear for civilians. By 1940 kidnapping will be so prevalent that no important person will be without a bodyguard. In 1938-39, the Japanese, having set up another puppet state in China, will be driven out of the interior; the brief Eastern War will ensue, from which both Japan and the U. S. will emerge national wrecks...
...Louis physicians knew it was epidemic encephalitis, the brain inflammation popularly called sleeping sickness.* Known in Europe since 1712, it first appeared in the U.S. at the end of 1918. following the world-wide influenza epidemic of that year. But the name and effects of the disease are almost all that is known about it. Scientists think it must be caused by a virus, but they can only guess at what the virus is, how it is spread, how best combated...
...cures of sickness no more signify an infallible remedy than do two swallow's make a summer. Nevertheless physicians were interested last week when Dr. Ronald Hare of London reported in the Lancet two cures of influenza pneumonia with serum prepared from human beings convalescing from influenza...
Died. Gilbert Nelson Haugen, 74, longtime U. S. Republican Congressman from Iowa's 4th District, co-author of the famed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill vetoed in 1927 by President Coolidge; of heart disease brought on last winter by influenza; in Northwood, Iowa. When he was displaced March 4 by Democrat Fred Biermann, he had completed 34 consecutive years in the House, an all-time record...