Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...split his stock 100 for one and paid 20? a share, in effect a $20 dividend on the original stock. But he is an exception; most of the uranium miners on the Colorado Plateau are still waiting for the big chance. Said one: "It's just like a virus. It gets in your blood...
...Crimson, though, came perilously close to defeat in its first national victory ever. Hoppin had been fighting a virus all during the motor trip from New York, and was still so sick when the team reached Toledo that he was unable to sail the first race...
Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and former U.N. truce negotiator in Korea, entered Bethesda Naval Hospital with a serious case of virus pneumonia complicated by anemia. At week's end his condition was reported "satisfactory...
...they admit that the outbreak may prove to be California's worst. Day after day patients have been admitted to hospitals with splitting headaches, stiff necks and high fever, later to lapse into a coma which may last for weeks. Children and the elderly are especially affected; the virus does not so often strike adults in their prime. Unlike the Eastern and St. Louis virus, the Western form rarely causes permanent brain damage...
Meanwhile, because the virus is carried by a mosquito (Culex tarsails) which breeds in stagnant water, valley residents were going all out to put oil on pools and spray everything in sight...