Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goal of the renewed campaign is not to immunize those uninoculated against swine flu. It is to protect elderly and chronically ill people against what may be a more immediate menace, the A/Victoria flu strain, which contributed to an estimated 20,000 deaths in the U.S. last year. As some experts had feared, the A/Victoria bug returned, striking 59 elderly people in a Miami nursing home in late January; five of them have died. But no vaccine produced solely to protect against A/Victoria was on hand; all that was available had been mixed with the swine flu vaccine...
...those at highest risk might as well be immunized against A/Victoria at the same time. All this posed a dilemma for federal decision makers: Should they risk giving the double-mix vaccine again, despite the hazard of Guillain-Barré syndrome, to guard the most vulnerable against the resurgent A/Victoria strain...
...Davenport '78 said yesterday that the additional game will not prove to be a strain on the players. "The effect of an extra week is minimal when you've been training three months already," Davenport said...
...fighting is destroying the already floundering Rhodesian economy. Of a white labor force of 90,000, about 10,000 serve in the army or the police; this has placed a severe strain on industries that rely on skilled whites. Almost a third of the Rhodesian budget goes for defense purposes. And perhaps most important in a country geared to production for export, Rhodesia's exports have dropped off sharply. Zambia and Mozambique have closed their borders completely, and South Africa has begun to slow traffic from landlocked Rhodesia. At this point, it would be more surprising if Rhodesian businessmen...
...there are other aspects of America B.C. that raise doubts. To the layman, Fell's theories seem well-constructed and scholarly at first. But after a while a certain pattern develops. Time after time the internal consistency of his argument depends upon the acceptance of ad hoc hypotheses that strain the limits of credibility...