Word: influenza
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...come home and was still burning over the orders that brought him back to Canada (TIME, Jan. 3). Plainly, he would have liked to say much more. But that night, relaxed in the midst of his family, General McNaughton said that in Britain he had had a bout of influenza and that low blood pressure followed. There was, he said, nothing organically wrong that rest would not fix. Already he had sent for his skis, planned a long session on the Seigniory Club's snow trails. The reporters wondered who had talked with Andy McNaughton between interviews...
...Then one of the bombed-outs got influenza. Someone began sneaking food from the cupboard. Then after the mid-December raid the water supply went bad and my visitors began to smell. They may have remarked the same about me. During the same raid a brother of one of my visitors was bombed out, and came around to move into my house. The new arrivals smelled even before they arrived...
...People may have to stop sneezing around pigs: swine, too, have been getting influenza lately. The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association says that no connection between human and pig influenza has been proved, but observes darkly that flu tends to occur in both species at the same time. As among people, flu deaths among swine have been...
Those parts of the U.S. that got flu first had less flu last week. But on the newly flu-struck West Coast, and in parts of New England, the flu graph went up steeply, while Public Health Service figures showed that throughout the U.S. deaths from combined influenza and pneumonia were rising. In New York City, deaths from pneumonia rose from 160 to 235 in one week. The week's most glamorous flu sufferers: Hedy LaMarr, Marlene Dietrich...
...Influenza showed a few signs of waning last week in the eastern U.S. (e.g., New York City); it still waxed in certain sections of the Midwest and West (e.g., Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles). About 1,000.000 people were sick, according to the A.P., but Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the A.M.A., upped the estimate to at least ten per cent of the population. A board of Philadelphia doctors averred that the virus causing this year's mild flu was not a dangerous one; they hedged by adding that this virus might pave the way for more...