Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outbreak of influenza which has been sweeping the U.S. has not been as mild as at first thought, the U.S. Public Health Service admitted. In 58 cities in one week, deaths from flu and pneumonia totaled 610. But the service was confident that the outbreak was waning fast...
Died. William Waller Hawkins, 69, former chairman of the board of the 19 Scripps-Howard newspapers, onetime (1920-23) president of United Press; of influenza; in Miramar, Calif. Quiet, pincenezed Bill Hawkins was an effective complement to dynamic Roy Howard in their 46-year working partnership. They teamed up when U.P. was founded to rival the formidable A.P.; Howard became its globe-trotting president-reporter-publicist, Hawkins the steady harvester of clients, organizer of bureaus. Hawkins succeeded Howard as U.P. chief, followed him to Scripps-Howard, succeeded him in 1936 as board chairman when Howard became president...
Died. Francesco Saverio Nitti, 84, scholarly Italian elder statesman who was forced by Mussolini into a 20-year exile for his unflinching opposition to Fascism; of influenza; in Rome. The late Premier Vittorio Orlando's World War I Finance Minister, roly-poly Nitti was a Premier himself, in 1919-20. During Mussolini's time he found haven in Paris, returned home in 1945 to help guide Italy's political and economic rebirth, thereafter served in Parliament as an energetic liberal...
...winter flu flurry was on. The Army had already started giving the needle to all troops in Korea and those in the U.S. who had orders for overseas. Here & there across the U.S., civilian health authorities reported outbreaks of "respiratory infection," which some called grippe and some called influenza. The chances were that in most cases the disease was caused by the same virus that the Army's laboratories had isolated: influenza, type A' (pronounced, and often written "A prime"). If no other strain of flu virus shows up, there should be little occasion for alarm, since this...
Hygiene's widespread precautionary system has prevented the spread of any major epidemic since the great flu rage of 1918. The only recent flare-up was another rash of influenza that was quickly scotched two years ago. In '48 a state-subsidized chest x-ray program found only 3 cases of active tuberculosis out of 7.563 pictures, well below the national average...