Word: virus
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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...
...virus, named "A Texas" because it was first isolated in a Texas laboratory, has already spread through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, parts of New York and southern Connecticut...
...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...
Postel said A Texas is no more dangerous than the common A Victoria virus. He added that anyone innoculated against A Victoria may even have been somewhat immunized to A Texas