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...council recommended the purchase of athletic equipment for Houses to alleviate the strain on the overburdened MAC and also resolved that more equipment should be purchased for the QRAC...
...might not be so fortunate. Medical records dating back to the 18th century show waves of influenza rolling westward from Asia through Russia into Europe with disturbing regularity. Three or four times a century, a pandemic spreads from flu's heartland. So statistically speaking, since the last reassorted strain emerged in Hong Kong in 1968, we're due for another...
...Middle Ages?compares in mortality to the "Spanish flu" of 1918. Around the world, 40 million died of it within one year. Unusually, the 1918 flu did not come from Asia. The first outbreak began at a barracks in Kansas in the spring. The second, most virulent strain of the disease emerged simultaneously in September in Boston, Massachusetts; in Brest on the Atlantic coast of France; and in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone...
...unusual origin, spread and potency of the 1918 flu are almost certainly connected to World War I, which saw large numbers of men crowded together in camps, transports and trenches. We don't know exactly why this particular strain was more deadly than others?though scientists may be closing in on the answer?but we do know that it caused a global disaster. In Philadelphia, 7,500 people died of it in two weeks. The supply of coffins ran out; streetcars were used as hearses. Families lay dying in their homes, unable even to stir to feed themselves. Some lingered...
...sure when it will come or where it will start. There is only one thing of which we can be certain: that it definitely will happen again. We can also be sure that, as so often before, it very likely may begin in southern China. Variants of the strain that caused the "bird-flu" outbreak six years ago are still cropping up around the region, or the outbreak could arise from some other strain altogether...