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...July, when most people were concentrating on keeping cool rather than keeping well, Surgeon General William H. Stewart of the Public Health Service predicted that winter would bring a heavy wave of flu to the eastern half of the nation. He was right, and then some. Last week an influenza-like ailment had thousands of people moaning, barking, wheezing and groaning in at least 30 states east of the Rockies. Health officials in New York and at the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta conceded, after weeks of hedging, that the outbreak had reached epidemic proportion...
Died. Konrad Adenauer, 91, the man who made a new Germany; of influenza and bronchitis; in RhÖndorf, West Germany (see THE WORLD...
...accept a meager $900,000 yearly allowance, most of which he spent to support courtiers, bodyguards, concubines, servants and some 2,000 legitimate and illegitimate Nizam children, while he himself lived like a miser as a matter of personal choice, reputedly even darning his old socks; of influenza; in King Koti Palace, India...
...drug, Du Font's amantadine hydrochloride, is virtually the only medicine effective in preventing viral infections. Trade-named Symmetrel, it has been tested on more than 3,000 human subjects, and has shown remarkable effectiveness in protecting against Asian-A influenza. For an adult the effective dose of amantadine is 200 mg. a day, a tiny fraction of an ounce...
This does not mean that cancer is infectious in the same way as influenza or measles-"To this day," says Dr. Rous, "I have found no case where a tumor has been transferred from one person to another." Nor does it necessarily even mean that any human cancer is caused by a virus, but the likelihood of this seems so great that around the world tens of millions of dollars are now being spent annually by scientists to see whether Rous's long-maligned discovery can lead the way to control of some cancers in man. Dr. Rous himself...