Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes in winter and is harder to dodge than a speeding snowball. This year the debilitating and sometimes deadly scourge of influenza is unusually virulent. So many people have taken to their bed with chills, aching muscles and fever that doctors are overwhelmed, offices are decimated, and some schools have temporarily shut their doors. Nearly 8,100 Americans, most of them elderly, are known to have died of flu and flu-related illnesses, and the figure is rising daily. The Centers for Disease Control has officially declared it an epidemic, the worst outbreak...
...first isolated a flu virus, named type A, in 1933 and subsequently found two other variants, now known as types B and C. Individual strains are named for the place where they are first identified. Most of this season's flu has been triggered by a nasty strain of influenza A, called A- Shanghai. A few cases of A-Taiwan and B-Yamagata (Japan) have also turned...