Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illness rate, 4; oldsters over 65 had the lowest, 1.6. ¶ Days lost from work totaled 356,500,000; from school 273,200,000. The survey, first of its kind in 20 years, recorded a higher-than-average illness rate because the invading Asian virus boosted the incidence of influenza above normal-how much, the pollsters were not sure...
...demand agreement from the reader; table rapper as well as spirit knocker can enjoy it as the record of an unusual man. Ford first noticed that he was unusual when a shavetail at Camp Grant. It was late in World War I, and thousands of soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida to ask if there might be some insanity...
Last week, ill with influenza, obviously out of favor with the new master of the Kremlin, Palmiro Togliatti, 65, was sitting out the campaign for Italy's general elections, coming late this month. Luigi Longo, wartime Red partisan organizer, postwar street fighter and a recent visitor to the Kremlin, has taken over as acting party chief. But Communist membership is down from 2,500,000 to 1,700,000; one-fourth of the party's Senators and Deputies have been dropped as unsuitable candidates for reelection; the Communists are having a hard time finding vote-winning issues...
Asian flu faced U.S. disease detectives with a puzzle last week. The nation's big-city health departments were noting an upsurge in deaths due to influenza and pneumonia (meaning, mostly, pneumonia as influenza's aftermath). In Dallas the rate was 150% above normal, in New York City 85% and Chicago 75%. Yet, unlike last fall, there was no reported increase in absenteeism from work. Probable answer: the present wave is hitting mostly older people who no longer work, are particularly vulnerable to flu and pneumonia...
...mutant Asian strain of flu virus has already caused "the most widespread influenza epidemic in 40 years," said Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service. His estimate: 15 million to 20 million cases in the U.S. since Sept.1. Though the peak of the first wave has passed, Dr. Burney urged prompt use of the vaccine now available to guard against a second wave early in 1958. ¶ Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts...