Word: virus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When several hundred soldiers were stricken with influenza at Fort Dix, N.J., in February, doctors at first were not greatly alarmed. The recruits appeared to be suffering only from the A/Victoria influenza virus, a strain that caused last winter's relatively mild flu epidemic. But tests showed that at least a dozen of the soldiers-including an 18-year-old who died of flu-related pneumonia-had been infected with a new and more worrisome viral strain. Medical experts are concerned that the virus, usually seen only in swine, may be similar to the lethal virus that probably caused...
...city and state defaulted, would be paid out of their allotment of future federal revenue sharing. Declared Rohatyn: "We're not asking for a handout. Taxpayers elsewhere are not going to be penalized. Quite the opposite; if a federal guarantee is available, other cities will be vaccinated against the virus that has weakened...
...They were just in better shape than we were," explained Crimson co-captain Warren Otto, who was sidelined by a virus...
Elderly Ailment. Inflammation of the brain−which leads to fever, convulsions and, in some cases, death−can be caused by any of a large variety of viruses or bacteria or can follow a wide range of other illnesses. But the bugs responsible for the current outbreak of encephalitis are unique. They are "arboviruses," a contraction for arthropod-borne viruses. The arthropod that carries the virus is, in this case, an insect with jointed feet−the common mosquito−that has been particularly numerous and active in large areas of the U.S. this year. Mosquitoes pick...
...called because the virus was first isolated from brain-tissue specimens in a St. Louis laboratory...