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While such natural hazards as snow, fog and heavy rains deterred most longdistance passengers last week, one world traveler got through unimpeded. Requiring no passport and thriving on inclement weather, the influenza virus designated A2-Hong Kong-68 was sweeping across Europe like a Mongol horde...
According to the World Health Organization's influenza sleuths in London, the current outbreak began in Spain in October. Spaniards consider themselves lucky: no more than 5% of the work force reported sick because...
...harder were France, with a third of the population stricken in December, and Italy. The Italians originally named the disease (la influenza, to designate "the influence" of an unusual conjunction of the planets) seven centuries ago. This time they blamed it not on the planets but on the return of the Apollo 12 astronauts and called it "moon flu" (TIME, Dec. 19). The epidemic struck first in the north, spread relentlessly down the leg to the very toe of Italy, and last week was rampant in Sicily. Just when it seemed that the peak had passed in the north, cold...
Died. General Georges Catroux, 92, French officer whose career mirrored his nation's colonial fortunes; of influenza; in Paris. Catroux led troops during the conquests in North Africa, the Middle East and Indo-China, but later joined De Gaulle in dissolving the empire. He personally issued the proclamation freeing Syria in September 1941 and Lebanon two months later, in 1955 negotiated the return of the Sultan of Morocco to his throne and later vigorously supported Algerian independence. For all of this he earned De Gaulle's praise as a soldier "possessing the sense of the greatness of France...
Died. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., 69, pioneering American virologist and head of the epidemiology department at the University of Michigan; following abdominal surgery; in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1934 Francis made medical history by isolating the classic A strain of influenza; he identified the virulent B strain in 1940, and by 1944 he had conquered both with a vaccine so dependable that it was used to inoculate the entire U.S. Army two years later. But his greatest success came in 1954, when he supervised (he unprecedented field trials (covering 1,800,000 children in 44 states at an expense...