Word: influenza
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Strangely, a person who has been weakened by pneumonitis is not peculiarly susceptible to pneumonia bacteria or influenza viruses. The disease is mildly contagious; but prolonged rather than casual exposure seems required to bring it out. An epidemic this month at the University of Rochester medical school sent 40 nurses, students, doctors...
...lasts for only 20 to 30 minutes, so that an eon of virus evolution can occur within a few years on the human time scale. New and fiercer breeds of virus can thus develop from time to time, then vanish. Doctors believe that the virus which caused the worldwide influenza plague of 1918 is still with us, but the once deadly old stock is relatively decadent...
Champion Lost was the nation's outstanding liberal. Roberto M. Ortiz, who last month, after two politically impotent years of diabetic near-blindness, resigned the presidency to Acting President Castillo (TIME, July 6). Twenty days later, struck also with influenza and bronchopneumonia. Ortiz died. Thus passed the man who had been elected in 1938 by the largest popular vote in the nation's history...
...have been delving into the medical history of George Washington. Their research, published last week in the clinic's Proceedings, shows that, in the course of his 67-year life, Washington suffered from: measles, diphtheria, smallpox, an "infectious disease of uncertain nature," dysentery, malaria, rheumatism, pneumonia, a carbuncle, influenza, conjunctivitis, recurrent headaches, bad eyesight, a tremor of the hands, decaying teeth...
...protective coats, leaves them naked and dead. Several top-notch medical researchers are now exploring the uses of wetting agents. So far suggested: in obstetrics, preoperative disinfection of skin and instruments in surgery, cleansing of superficial wounds, throat swabs, athlete's foot. Some detergents will inactivate the influenza virus...