Word: phs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time that PHS had launched such a "fight to the finish'' against these ailments. But when it did so in 1946, many doctors expected to find a single "common cold virus," or only a few of them. With $50,000 a year for research, PHS hoped to solve the problem in five years. But the problem has proved to be nowhere as simple. Now millions have been spent, and of 100 to 120 different viruses under suspicion, about half have been convicted. Most importantly, it has become clear that one virus can cause what looks like many...
...Excess Deaths." But immunity is valid only against strains of flu previously contracted. So flu vaccine is a shotgun prescription containing three strains of type A and one of type B. It is rated 60%-75% effective against flu of any kind. PHS recommends vaccination for pregnant women, for diabetics, for all people over 65. and for those of any age with known disease of the heart, lungs or kidneys...
...itself is rarely the direct cause of death, but it may damage the lungs so that pneumonia develops. In an already weakened patient, this may prove incurable. In plotting flu's ravages, PHS tallies all "excess deaths" (above normal for the city and season) in 108 U.S. cities, and checks to see whether the peaks coincide with a rash of "influenza-pneumonia" entries on death certificates. So far, throughout the U.S.. there have been few reports of such "excess deaths...
...cloud crossing U.S. territory may or may not have lost most of its radioactive intensity. There was no immediate reason for alarm, said the U.S. Public Health Service, but the PHS is taking no chances. The unwelcome cloud, and all the clouds that may follow it, will be watched attentively. U.S. air, water, milk and other foodstuffs will be examined continuously for a possibly dangerous content of Soviet radioactivity...
...chief threat of radiation is to ground crews that service the planes. Crewmen are required to wear gloves and check them frequently. The airplanes are washed down with special detergent solutions, and the mops used in this process are also checked. They sometimes prove notably hot, and from them PHS has extracted the 25-odd radioisotopes that make up the most dangerous debris in a cloud of fission products...