Word: influenzae
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From two deaths to millions may seem like a big leap. But this strain of influenza, called H5N1, though highly virulent in birds, has never before been known to attack humans. Since no human can count on having a natural immunity to what is essentially a bird virus, we could prove especially vulnerable to infection. First discovered in South African terns in 1961, H5N1 has already raced through poultry farms in southern China, killing caged fowl by the thousands...
...disease--so important. If the virus has reconfigured itself into a form that can be passed from person to person, without an animal intermediary, and if that altered virus is highly contagious, Hong Kong's tiny outbreak could grow into a global pandemic. It is a long shot, but influenza viruses have performed such feats in the past, usually by trading key genes with other influenza viruses. These mix-and-match sessions seem to happen most often in pigs but can also occur in other mammals, including people...
FOWL FLU Several people in Hong Kong have contracted a deadly strain of influenza previously found only in birds. The big concern: it could be passed from person to person--and eventually spread worldwide...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Flu shots may become a thing of the past thanks to an experimental influenza vaccine which can be administered as a nasal spray. After giving 1,602 children two doses of either the real vaccine or a placebo last year, doctors from the National Institutes of Health and the biotechnology firm Aviron said today that only 1 percent of the 1,070 children who received the real spray caught the flu. By contrast, 18 percent of the 532 children who got the fake spray got sick. Overall, doctors involved in the 30-year study said the vaccine...
...Theater. Based on a series of fragments by the German playwright, Georg Buchner, the work was hailed as the first truly modern play when it first appeared on stage, some eighty years after it had been written in 1836. The last work Buchner worked on before he died of influenza at twenty-three, the collection of vignettes was performed to great success in 1913 in Germany. The stark Woyzeck diagnosed and condemned the nation's sick soul at a time characterized by psychoanalysis and introspection...