Word: influenza
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...given aureomycin credit for killing some of the tiny viruses as well as the bigger bacteria may have been on the wrong track. Actually, it seems to work this way: the golden antibiotic checks 'bacteria and also reduces fever, but in a case of virus infection (such as influenza), it only suppresses the fever without affecting the virus...
...will absorb much of the attention of people from coast to coast. Recent examples were the Minnesota and New Hampshire primaries and the death of King George VI. More frequently, however, the leading subjects of conversation are almost as numerous as the reports-ranging from a siege of virus influenza in Los Angeles to the traffic death rate in Wichita and a drive to eliminate rabid foxes in Pennsylvania. And even during those weeks that are dominated by a single subject, other topics compete for conversational honors...
...Andrew W. Contratto, examining physician at Stillman, reported that a strange virus is attacking students, hospitalizing them from four to five days. This germ is similar to the influenza bug that ran rampant after the first World War, but it is much less serious. When asked whether doctors knew what caused this particular virus. Contratto remarked. "There are so many damn viruses we don't know what to do with them...
...more than a year rumors circulated that Evita suffered from anemia, but the terrific pace of her public life belied the reports. A fortnight ago doctors announced that she was in bed with influenza. She was so ill on the day of the revolt that she was given a blood transfusion and not told of the uprising until it was over. Then she insisted on speaking over the radio from her sickroom at the presidential residence...
Fortunately, the disease was taking a far milder form than in Paris' big outbreak in 1892, when there were 16 deaths among 51 cases. Most recent victims thought they had nothing more serious than influenza; the only deaths have been among elderly invalids. Even so, Lepine's report fluttered the dovecots of the Ministry of Health...