Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILL the U.S. have a major influenza epidemic this fall? With a massive outbreak of the disease now sweeping around the world from its spawning ground in Red China, the answer ordinarily might be yes. But thanks to modern medical detective work and the efforts of vaccinemakers, there is a good chance that the enemy can be held in check. To follow the advance of the virus, and the measures taken to outwit it. TIME gathered up-to-the-minute reports from a dozen nations in the Far East and Europe. See MEDICINE, The War on Mutant...
...Florence was in the grip of an epidemic of colds, coughs and fevers, astrologers . . . declared that it was caused by the influence of an unusual conjunction of planets. This sickness . . . came gradually to be known as "influenza." -Chronicles of a Florentine Family...
Other Lung Diseases. Smokers' death rate was almost twice as high as that of nonsmokers; almost four times as high for deaths from pneumonia and influenza...
...Viruses so named because they were found in adenoids. They cause diseases intermediate in severity between the common cold and influenza...
...reported to be "crude, immoral, and unfit for production." Three policemen were sent to observe the play and report on its fitnss, and all agreed that it was much too harmful to the citizenry to be produced; the three "experts" ordered that it be closed. Another annoyance, an influenza epidemic, drifted into Cambridge, and by early January 1929 there were 57 men in the infirmary. There was, however, little chance that College would be closed down as a result...