Word: influenza
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...major influenza epidemic...
That soap and hot water will kill pneumococci, streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, diphtheria bacilli, and the syphilis spirochete, doctors have long known. Last week in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Bacteriologists Charles Chester Stock and Thomas Francis Jr. of New York University told of their successful experiments in making influenza vaccine from virus and soap solution...
...week Franklin Roosevelt arrived at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga. for his 32nd vacation in seven years, his second breathing spell in 1940. The President devoted all his time to getting well, for he arrived with a slight temperature, a holdover from his bout of intestinal influenza...
...Influenza. Greatest plague of World War I, if not the greatest in history, was the flu epidemic of 1918 which scourged every continent, almost every inhabited island. Throughout the world, more than 20,000,000 people died of it, 550,000 of them...
...Since influenza runs in cycles of some 20 years, some epidemiologists expect another great pandemic any year now. In recent months British doctors have anxiously watched flu graphs, but last week the British Medical Journal heaved a sigh of relief, announced that "this year's epidemic certainly does not rank among the major visitations of recent years...