Word: influenza
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...which supposedly started in Spain, had been known accordingly as the Spanish flu. This one, Frenchmen were sure, had crossed over from Italy. They promptly called it la grippe Italienne. With an acerbity that boded ill for European unity, Italians in Paris retorted by calling it influenza Francese...
...Round. Vaccination against flu, doctors agree, cannot do anybody much harm. But does it do any good? It worked during the flu epidemics of 1943 and 1945. But it was a flop in 1947, according to a study of students at the University of Chicago. Combined influenza A and B virus vaccine was injected into 790 students; another 1,230 students were not vaccinated. During the epidemic, exactly the same percentage of each group (9.5%) came down with flu. Severity of the attack was about the same in each group; 2.5% of the vaccinated and 2.26% of the unvaccinated were...
Lana Turner, 28, honeymooning with Bob Topping in Europe, went to bed with influenza in Heidelberg...
...Heart ailments. 5. Influenza...
Under the electron microscope, the cold-causing agent appeared to be "characteristic particles ... of the same general size as viruses of the influenza type, but . . . readily distinguishable from them." The two physicians named the "germ" .V14A because it came from the first nasal washing of the 14th volunteer...