Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influenza pandemic which raged around the world in 1918-19 was the third great plague in recorded history.* Nobody ever isolated the microbe that caused it, and recent attempts to find the supposed virus in the long-frozen corpses of Eskimo victims have got nowhere. But experts are confident that the killer, which rivaled World War I in numbers of victims, was indeed a virus. And, 34 years later, they are working night & day to find a defense so that it can never strike again with such deadly effect...
...given aureomycin credit for killing some of the tiny viruses as well as the bigger bacteria may have been on the wrong track. Actually, it seems to work this way: the golden antibiotic checks 'bacteria and also reduces fever, but in a case of virus infection (such as influenza), it only suppresses the fever without affecting the virus...
...will absorb much of the attention of people from coast to coast. Recent examples were the Minnesota and New Hampshire primaries and the death of King George VI. More frequently, however, the leading subjects of conversation are almost as numerous as the reports-ranging from a siege of virus influenza in Los Angeles to the traffic death rate in Wichita and a drive to eliminate rabid foxes in Pennsylvania. And even during those weeks that are dominated by a single subject, other topics compete for conversational honors...
...Andrew W. Contratto, examining physician at Stillman, reported that a strange virus is attacking students, hospitalizing them from four to five days. This germ is similar to the influenza bug that ran rampant after the first World War, but it is much less serious. When asked whether doctors knew what caused this particular virus. Contratto remarked. "There are so many damn viruses we don't know what to do with them...
...more than a year rumors circulated that Evita suffered from anemia, but the terrific pace of her public life belied the reports. A fortnight ago doctors announced that she was in bed with influenza. She was so ill on the day of the revolt that she was given a blood transfusion and not told of the uprising until it was over. Then she insisted on speaking over the radio from her sickroom at the presidential residence...