Word: influenzas
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Wayne Knight brings out the hypochondriac in me. You know Knight. He played the obnoxious mailman on Seinfeld, and is Sally's often clueless lover on Third Rock from the Sun. Lately he's been personifying influenza in those commercials for the antiviral drug Relenza. When I see him barging into a hapless woman's home, ready to take up residence, I could swear I'm developing a sore throat. Then when he plops down between the woman and her husband, I start getting that achy feeling in my joints and back. I especially love his sneering crack about soup...
...deep in the grip of a flu outbreak. It happens every year, but we keep hearing this one is different. Emergency rooms are jammed to overflowing. Offices are decimated. The I've-been-hit-by-a-dump-truck feeling that is one of the hallmarks of influenza seems to be lasting longer than it ever has before...
...state's emergency rooms. After a stint in the Southwest, the flu is bearing down with particular force on the Northeastern states: Public health facilities across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia are dealing with a massive influx of patients suffering from a Sydney strain of influenza, this year's main culprit; a crop of other, non-flu viruses is also to blame for the crowded...
...gallery in their own house, and although since its founding in 1921 it has grown some 19,000 sq. ft., the Phillips Collection still feels more "livable" than any other in America. It is a memorial, but without funerary overtones. It commemorates Phillips' brother James, who died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, and his father Major Duncan Clinch Phillips, who died the previous year. They were to be remembered not by the tomblike associations of the museum but by the vivacity...
...Number of people killed in the worldwide influenza epidemic...