Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical unit to the war-torn land. In the summer of 1918 the unit found Jerusalem's population down from 50,000 to 26,000; men, women and children half naked and only half alive, fought in the streets for scraps of garbage. Plague followed plague: malaria, typhus, influenza, cholera, dysentery, and the dread Black Death itself. Sent to Tiberias by British General Allenby, a Hadassah team found cholera rampant: the townspeople were using Sea of Galilee water to cook with, to swim in, and to bathe their dead...
...epochal discovery was confirmed, researchers began to hunt for a protective vaccine and for proof that abnormalities might be caused by other virus diseases infecting the mother. So far they have had little luck. Mumps, said Dr. Rhodes, is next in line as a crippier and killer in utero. Influenza has been indicted in some jurisdictions, but the evidence is not so clear...
...idea that there is a specific common-cold virus, peculiar to man, had best be abandoned completely. No fewer than 70 viruses have been shown to cause human diseases that run the gamut from the simple common cold (runny nose and other discomforts, but usually no fever) to influenza. Most discouraging for snifflers awaiting a wonder drug: in some people, at some times, viruses of supposedly the relatively harmless, common-cold class may cause disease as severe as influenza, while the more feared influenza viruses may give rise to symptoms no more severe than those of the common cold...
...duplicated and confirmed, it would mark a giant stride against a disease that now kills 12,000 Americans (most of them children) annually. But Dr. Schwartz agreed that the relationship of virus to disease in leukemia must be far more complex than in common illnesses such as smallpox, influenza, measles and polio; for one thing, leukemia is not infectious. Inherited susceptibility is essential, he believes, while hormones and X rays may be important controlling factors. So, he emphasized, a vaccine against human leukemia is still far in the future...
Died. Leon Berard, 84, member of the French Academy and Raymond Poincare's political protege, a classical scholar who horrified liberals when Minister of Public Instruction during the early 1920s by decreeing compulsory study of Greek and Latin, later (1940-43) was Vichy Ambassador to the Vatican; of influenza; in Paris...