Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visited a ranch where children were down with the pox, but nobody paid much heed or knew what kind.* By the time the Orrs got to bustling, ultramodern Sao Paulo, 400 miles away, James William Orr, 14, complained of fever and a sore throat. A local doctor diagnosed influenza and hopefully dosed him vith medicine. The feverish boy lay around Viracopos airport for hours before he flew, with 82 other travelers, on a Comet 4 jet to Idlewild...
...suggest that smoking is a basic cause of either high blood pressure or coronary artery disease. But along with other A.M.A. panelists, they agreed that smoking almost certainly makes such conditions worse, and they agreed that the danger of serious illness or death from such infectious lung diseases as influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis is increased if the lungs have been damaged by smoke...
...Haycraft's findings now go to the Influenza Commission, a part of the armed forces epidemiology board. Once approved, they will almost surely mean even more shots for G.I.s. For the commission has been awaiting Dr. Haycraft's report before releasing a new influenza vaccine for use in the armed forces...
...Illinois, and is now working on the PHS vaccine project. "What we have is a whole gamut of respiratory infections. A single virus, even the Asian flu virus, may give one person only a runny-nose sort of 'cold,' and give somebody else a severe case of influenza. It depends on the individual's previous history, present health, age, and the size of the virus dose he is exposed...
...daughter had been reduced to selling off the family furniture from her Moscow apartment, suggesting that he had been stripped of his post and income.* Last week the Supreme Soviet ordered his name expunged from 35 factories, streets and towns, and Molotov himself was in the hospital with influenza, earlier reported as a heart attack. Asked for details, a spokesman in Molotov's former Foreign Ministry said: "He is of no importance to us. We can't keep track of everybody in hospitals. Anything can happen to human beings...