Word: influenzae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cure for influenza has always been elusive to researchers: the virus's outer coat undergoes frequent mutation, so a vaccine can attack only one strain. But newly synthesized enzymes designed by computer may be able to kill a wide variety of flu viruses...
...year 2000 AIDS could become the largest epidemic of the century, eclipsing the influenza scourge of 1918. That disaster killed 20 million people, or 1% of the world's population -- more than twice the number of soldiers who died in World War I. "This epidemic is of historic scale," says June Osborn of the U.S. AIDS commission, "but the response has been far short of historic...
Some medical research is attempting to translate the workings of alternative medicine into something doctors can comprehend. Research has shown, for instance, that an acupuncturist's needles stimulate nerve cells to release endorphins, powerful opiate-like substances that relieve pain. Homeopathic remedies have been found effective for influenza, headache and allergies in numerous medical studies conducted in Europe. Meanwhile, herbs used in Chinese and Indian medicine have been shown to contain some of the same active ingredients found in conventional drugs...
...crime is only a small part of the story. Study after study shows that blacks are just not as healthy as whites or other racial groups -- at any age. Black toddlers are three times as likely as white youngsters to die from meningitis, pneumonia or influenza. Black men are three times as likely to contract AIDS, and 50% more likely to die from a heart attack, even if they make it to a hospital. Death from stroke is five times as common in African Americans of both sexes between the ages of 35 and 55. Advanced kidney disease...
...severe sore throat within a few weeks to months after first exposure. Such signs, which usually clear up on their own, can easily be misdiagnosed as a bad flu or mononucleosis. Researchers realized the tip-off would come when they tested the patients and found HIV instead of influenza viruses or other disease-causing agents. By hanging out in hospital emergency rooms and talking to colleagues, the researchers identified seven young homosexual men -- three in Alabama, four in California -- suffering from a primary HIV infection...