Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immunization program comes in response to a recent government announcement that one dose of the vaccine will probably not protect most 18- to 24-year-oldsagainst swine influenza. The U.S. Center for Disease Control issued a bulletin in November recommending that everyone in that age range receive a second dose...
...take the slogan's advice stood only to get a cold shoulder. Despite the Ford Administration's original vow to vaccinate 200 million Americans against the dread virus-a form of which possibly caused some half-million deaths in the U.S. alone during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic-only a few health centers round the country were ready to give the shots. Indeed, federal distribution of the vaccine was so erratic that a health official in Portland, Ore., remarked: "We didn't even know we'd received a batch until we read about...
...federal program is providing two types of vaccine: monovalent, which offers protection only against swine flu, and bivalent, which also contains vaccine against last year's prevailing A/Victoria influenza strain. Because the virus used in producing the vaccine is cultured in eggs, the shots should not be taken by those who are severely allergic to eggs. The current recommendations of federal health officials...
...most savage of all epidemics in the world since the Black Death, and by far the most lethal in the history of the Americas, was the 1918-19 worldwide pandemic of influenza. Often called the Spanish flu because some of the earliest cases reported were in Spain, it actually erupted simultaneously in places as far apart as southern Russia and Greenland. Soldiers on the battle front suddenly keeled over. Policemen donned masks to direct traffic, and small children were similarly covered in their carriages...
...three weeks or more. Four years of war had left much of the world ripe for all sorts of epidemics, and many varieties of pneumonia-causing bacteria were pullulating. So was Pfeiffer's bacillus, which had been mistakenly identified in 1892-93 as the cause of influenza and therefore named Hemophilus influenzae. There is no doubt that among the millions who fell prey to the virus, many were simultaneously attacked by this and other bacteria...