Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Texas originated in the Caribbean in the fall of 1976 and spread from there to the United States. A spokes woman for the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., said yesterday the disease is a variant of the A Victoria virus, the most common strain of the flu in America in the past several years...
...doctors expect some of the new strain to hit here, Postel said. He said it was impossible to predict how serious an outbreak of the new flu could be at Harvard...
...strain of flu virus now spreading through the Northeast could reach Harvard, Dr. Sholem Postel, acting director of the University Health Services (UHS), said yesterday...
...Cathryn Samples of the Connecticut Department of Health said yesterday the A Texas strain has caused large-scale absences from school in most of southwestern Connecticut. Samples said the virus had been detected as far north as Hartford...
...parts of the U.S., notably New Jersey and Pennsylvania, have reported flu outbreaks already. But all the viruses responsible appear to be A/Texas or A/Victoria, both recent mutants against which currently available vaccines are generally (though not totally) effective. It will take some months for the new A-l strain to complete its spread?and spread it almost certainly will, from the frozen stretches of Siberia and Manchuria to Europe...