Word: influenza
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...China. The experience of other large cities was spotty. In Los Angeles, 15 members of the Rams' 40-man football squad gave up practice because of the flu. In Denver, the Hong Kong virus was blamed for a significant increase in the number of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia. Chicago and Detroit were holding their breaths...
...emphasis on such basic drives than on the welfare of mother and child. Medical research firmly supports their contention that a breast-fed baby is less liable than a bottle-fed baby to such distressing complaints as diarrhea, colic, diaper rash, allergies and infections-from the common cold to influenza and poliomyelitis. He also benefits emotionally from frequent fondling and being cradled in Mother's arms. The mother herself benefits because hormone changes associated with lactation speed contraction of the uterus after the stretching caused by childbirth. The incidence of breast cancer is far lower among women who have...
...remove 95% of the vaccine impurities that have caused side effects in the past. The Lilly Co. has bought three of the $40,000, 32,000-r.p.m. K-2 centrifuges from the AEC, last month began producing the new vaccine for use during next fall's pre-influenza season...
...disease-those infected one year are usually immune to the virus the next. The more infected, the more who become immune. Last winter the flu was strongest in the Western states, while the East, which went through its last major outbreak two winters ago, suffered relatively little. Immunity to influenza viruses built up west of the Rockies and dwindled elsewhere...
...question facing health officials now: how effective will available vaccines be against this year's A2? Flu viruses have the exasperating capability to "drift" each year, changing characteristics to varying degrees and accreting new "armor" against existing vaccines. So far, the virus "drift" does not appear significant. "Present influenza vaccines," says the Communicable Disease Center's Dr. Stephen Schoenbaum, "should afford adequate protection since they contain A-2 strains similar to the ones we have isolated...