Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oceans and armed might may protect nations from invading armies; nothing stops influenza. In 1918, the disease made a globe-girdling march that left 30 million dead. Modern outbreaks, though less horrendous, still pose a major public health threat. The 1968 epidemic affected more than 30 million in the U.S. alone, causing widespread school and job absenteeism and killing more than...
...subjects' tongues and holding solutions smelling like onions or burned rubber under their noses. The NIH researchers were puzzled as to the cause of the condition but decided that it does not appear to be psychosomatic. At least half of the patients developed their symptoms following influenza-like illnesses. Others began to suffer from the disability after undergoing surgery unrelated to the nose, mouth or throat. None had readily observable abnormalities of the sensory organs. But Dr. Robert Henkin reported that when taste buds were examined with an electron microscope, marked cellular anomalies were noted...
...help to restore balance by removing the causes of congestion or antagonism." In acupuncture the insertions are not necessarily close to the pain or its apparent cause. For a headache, it may be the big toe that is punctured. Adherents also claim success in treating, among other things, toothache, influenza, dysentery, nephritis, deafness, blindness, asthma, eczema, diabetes and high blood pressure...
...have tremendous impact on disease treatment. Unlike drugs that merely suppress the symptoms of viral disease, isoprinosine attacks the viruses themselves, preventing them from reproducing and thus reducing the scope of infection. So far, says Gordon, it has proved effective in tissue culture against the viruses that cause influenza and the herpes viruses responsible for shingles and chicken pox. But it still falls short of cure for man's most common ailment, for, as Gordon points out, "there is no such thing as the common cold." More than 20 different viruses are known to produce the upper-respiratory-tract...
...housing conditions. The report concluded that the barracks, built as temporary shelters in 1941, were "unfit for human habitation" and an "outrage to common human decency." Font claimed that they contained roaches and rats and that the temperature of the hot water was 38 degrees. Cases of influenza and ringworm were common. Font included 85 statements from enlisted men and officers who complained of poor plumbing facilities, broken windows and holes in the barracks' walls...