#asian flu

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The Man Who Beat the 1957 Flu Pandemic

Pioneering virologist Maurice Hilleman, who is little remembered today, also helped develop nine of the 14 children’s vaccines that are now recommended

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Some one had to say it . . .

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PANDEMIC OF ASIAN FLU in 1957-58 left a worldwide memory of aches, sneezes, absenteeism. Health Service estimated incidence in US, for peak year (1957), at 20 million—deaths due to the virus, complicated by pneumonia and other factors, at over 10,000. Vaccine (above) was immunologists’ attempt to stem the tide. This was first pandemic in which a relatively new type of virus was identified early enough to predict its spread and enable timely preparation of a vaccine.

Historic Decade 1950-1960 (Year/News Front, 1960)

A map of the 1957 Asian flu.

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Asian Influenza (Solid arrows show date sequences of outbreaks)

TIME, 24 June 1957

Map of the Asian flu of 1957