Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around the Northern Hemisphere this week, with winter's assault of colds and influenza near its seasonal peak, millions of sniffling, hacking customers went to the corner drugstore to shop for what they hoped would be a cure, or at least a palliative, for their suffering. Whether they called their complaint a cold or catarrh, die Grippe- or flu, the answer was the same: for none of these illnesses caused by viruses does medicine have a cure. The best that any victim can expect is the relief of some immediate symptoms and unimpeded recovery from the original viral infection...
...France, la grippe originally meant only influenza; Germany's die Grippe covers various flulike illnesses; in the U.S., "grippe" is often used for infections intermediate in severity between the common cold...
...Switzerland; General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, showing "gradual improvement" in a Manhattan hospital after being downed by a prostate gland infection (see MEDICINE); Mississippi's segregating Democratic Senator James O. Eastland, 55, laid up in Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital with a stubborn case of influenza; West Germany's Minister of the Economy Ludwig Erhard, who celebrated his 63rd birthday getting congratulated in bed while recovering from pneumonia contracted on his recent trip to Cairo...
...Influenza and related ills had millions of Americans by the throat last week. Since flu is not a disease that must be reported to health authorities, no accurate tally of the victims was possible. But it was estimated that 2,000,000 had been stricken in the Los Angeles area since New Year's, that 1,000,000 were laid up last week (500,000 of them in the city of Los Angeles, an equal number in surrounding communities). Across the nation, outbreaks were spotty. Boston reported up to 20% of schoolchildren absent. Pittsburgh was hard hit. Cleveland...
Deaths from influenza and bacterial pneumonia (hard to separate, because one so often complicates the other) were about 50% above average for January's first half, reported the U.S. Communicable Disease Center. In seven states and the District of Columbia the active flu virus was identified as the mutant Asian strain, A2-57. In seven other states the same strain was suspect, but not yet convicted on laboratory evidence...