Word: influenza
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...suggest that smoking is a basic cause of either high blood pressure or coronary artery disease. But along with other A.M.A. panelists, they agreed that smoking almost certainly makes such conditions worse, and they agreed that the danger of serious illness or death from such infectious lung diseases as influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis is increased if the lungs have been damaged by smoke...
...Haycraft's findings now go to the Influenza Commission, a part of the armed forces epidemiology board. Once approved, they will almost surely mean even more shots for G.I.s. For the commission has been awaiting Dr. Haycraft's report before releasing a new influenza vaccine for use in the armed forces...
...Illinois, and is now working on the PHS vaccine project. "What we have is a whole gamut of respiratory infections. A single virus, even the Asian flu virus, may give one person only a runny-nose sort of 'cold,' and give somebody else a severe case of influenza. It depends on the individual's previous history, present health, age, and the size of the virus dose he is exposed...
...daughter had been reduced to selling off the family furniture from her Moscow apartment, suggesting that he had been stripped of his post and income.* Last week the Supreme Soviet ordered his name expunged from 35 factories, streets and towns, and Molotov himself was in the hospital with influenza, earlier reported as a heart attack. Asked for details, a spokesman in Molotov's former Foreign Ministry said: "He is of no importance to us. We can't keep track of everybody in hospitals. Anything can happen to human beings...
...lungs so that pneumonia develops. In an already weakened patient, this may prove incurable. In plotting flu's ravages, PHS tallies all "excess deaths" (above normal for the city and season) in 108 U.S. cities, and checks to see whether the peaks coincide with a rash of "influenza-pneumonia" entries on death certificates. So far, throughout the U.S.. there have been few reports of such "excess deaths...