Word: influenza
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...promoted the Christmas tree. He composed music for the Duke of Wellington's funeral. He managed a lot of little things well. Yet even this doting biographer concedes that he was "excessively conscientious on quite minor matters." Albert died at 42, almost as much from overwork as from influenza...
...many Americans are likely to make use of an artificial heart in the near future, but there are millions of us this winter who would like to hear about a drug that cures influenza...
...rich enjoying essential services that are denied to the poor. But that same period has seen a drastic change both in the meaning of essential services and in the way people die. At the turn of the century, most people died fairly quickly of infectious diseases, primarily influenza and pneumonia. Now that those diseases can be cured with drugs, the chief killers are slow degenerative diseases, notably heart ailments and cancer. At the turn of the century, most people died at home, cheaply. Today more than 70% die in expensively equipped hospitals, and it is estimated that half...
Harvard's Stillman Infirmary has been more full than usual in the last two weeks, and an estimated 25 percent of patients admitted had the combination of influenza and bronchitis, Postel said...
...influenza, which is transmitted through and air by viruses, hit Boston College about two months ago in one of the largest onslaughts in recent years, said Mary T. Menton R.N. of that college's Stillman Infirmary...