The Silent Invader (Westinghouse Broadcasting, 1957)
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- This film discusses how the United States is preparing for an outbreak of Asian influenza. Prominent physicians and the head of the US Public Health Service address types of influenza, the nature of the virus, mortality rates, spread patterns, vaccines, the physician's responsibility, and medical advice for people who fall ill.
Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: resource.nlm.nih.gov/8800017A.
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#medicalhistory #influenza #influenzavirus
This influenza took over my family. We were all healthy enough not to die from it, but we all spent time in the bed getting over it.
It's nice to hear from someone from that terrible outbreak and I'm happy to know you survived!
Way to go immune system. Did its job.
this put me at more ease than the entire news media today.
thanks Dr Bernie, Dr Crabtree
My Pal Yeah. They were much more professional than idiot Trump!
This isn’t the flu!
Tracey Johnson It’s a respiratory disease similar to flu. But that has nothing to do with the point! The point is when sickness struck back then people were much more professional & sane than the idiots today!
@@t.johnson2966 It is the flu. I had the Asian flu in 1957 in the UK. It wasn't so contagious, as the rest of my family didn't get it.
Russell Huneke there are signs after a bad covid infection you may suffer compromised lungs and/or injured cardiac function. Clotting problems too which can cause heart attack or stroke, we are talking about people who don’t die from the initial infection being affected so, no not like the flu. (It is mainly a respiratory infection but the virus bonds to ACE2 receptors which aren’t exclusive to your lungs)
“And history would repeat itself” - 2020
I really really miss professionalism.
Same
Preach
Professionalism? Lemme guess kids on your lawn again?
Stop
Fact-based Male Logic, w/o the emotionalism of the hysterical-ridden and ad hominem screeching of femalia.
yep you can almost see the puppet strings
My mother nearly died from it when she was a nurse in Bolton UK she said 3 nurses in her hospital did unfortunately die from this. She made it through but said she was hallucinating and walking around her room thinking she was at work trying to “pack a bag of all the patients laundry!” It was her own clothes. Her mum has to call the dr which was the family never did in 1957 Lancashire in her family 😕. Thank God she’s still with us at 79 today shielding from Corona but happy and well 🙏
No Internet at that time. That's the difference.
It doesn't sound as if we've made much progress over 60+ years in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of flu. 😷
You think that way because you are ignorant of the past. What a shame you are in that position in the information age.
I think at the moment with this pandemic now plagueing the planet..2020. You were right 🙏
Even worse we've gone backwards.
Peter Bradshaw you seem like you got your head far up your own ass, spreading your perceived superiority complex on CZcams.
The flu virus changes every year, so we need a new vaccine every year. The US formerly had people stationed in China, etc. to monitor new viruses and send samples back home. The new vaccines came from those samples. Now, however, we have fired all those scientists, so we can't see what's coming. In 1957, the US was producing vaccine before we had our first case of Asian flu.
This bug killed my father. Not right away though. He died in 1983 from heart failure. His heart was damaged by the inflammation caused by the virus when he was about 13. I was 10 when he died.
@Slomofogo COVID-19 can cause significant cardiovascular damage, in all major organs. It causes the most damage in persons who already have severe hypertension. Not enough autopsies have been done in healthy persons who survived COVID-19 and then soon died in an accident. We don't know the full degree of damage to persons who quickly recover from COVID-19.
Calm rational and trying to keep people calm and informed rather than fear monger it for ratings
And state the truth, not rambling idiotic lies from buffoon trump.
@@larryn2682 there are lots of buffoons, you are one of them
@Oskar Dirlewanger and all of the world ftm
@@larryn2682 ok lol
No government unions back then, no deep state, no radical left, trying to stage a coup.
My mom had this, She said it knocked her flat for over two weeks.
I had the Asian flue when I was 5 yrs old. My fever was so high I ha convulsions. I remember my parents taking turns sitting up at night with me. They put cold towels on my head when the fever was so high. They thought I was going to die on the second day. I was very sick. It was almost 3 weeks before I was able to go back to school. I had lost so much weight. I looked like a pure skeleton.
It sounds like what we are going through now! Interesting how history repeats itself!!!!
Hope you know better now.
Thanks Tom Sullivan for the mention o n your show today. Interesting stuff.
Yeah I'm here after listening to that guy that mentioned this on Tom's radio show, interesting stuff indeed
That's where I heard of it too. This Wuhan strain appears to be much worse. I'm glad I watched this.
@@billgabert9902 Hi Bill and Russ--did the radio show mention this film here on the NLM channel, or just the '57 Asian flu overall?
@@NLMNIH Tom Sullivan Show, April 2, Hour 2, about midway through the hour. www.iheart.com/podcast/68-tom-sullivan-show-28293030/episode/tom-sullivan-show-april-2-hour-60548124/
2:50 Interesting points , they even knew what kind of impact it would be on society.
Still very relevant in current year 2020
I guess 50-60 years after we are gone our younger generation will be watching 2020 covid-19!!! God save us 🙏
If this was TV 60 years ago and that was the low brow media. I would hate to see what the internet will devolve into in 50-60.
too bad the surgeon general is not a public figure these days like they used to, c everett koop was like the last one to speak in public to the media and make psa's like this.
Jocelyn Elders during the Clinton regime was famous for saying about spending more money for heart disease and cancer instead of the disproportionate amount to be spent for HIV research crassly said, "We all gonna die of something."
@@dingorex this film has nothing to do with clinton or hiv, it was actually made when Eisenhower was president .
@@pcaetano7527 Woah. Are you thinking straight? I was responding to your C E. Coop comment not the video, obviously.
I was born in 1944. In 1957 I was in the 8th grade living in San Jose Calif. I have no memory of this.
I was born in Rhodesia in 1946. In 1958 I was in South Africa and I caught it. My mother had been a nurse during the war. She kept me isolated in my bedroom. I can remember my friends coming to visit and talking to me through the window.
I was very sick and it did leave me with a leaky mitral valve, but nobody else in the family caught it.
Maybe because you were a kid. Kids don't pay much attention to stuff like that. Your parents wouldn't have wanted to scare you. So no need in telling you.
How interesting!
my mom would have been six months pregnant with me, i guess i might owe these people a big thanks for my life and that of my kids to have made it here. i had never heard about this, and my dad was building our home that year, He had been home from the war for about two years then. They had rough times back then, i guess i am thankful i have had 63 years i might could not have had at all due to that pandemic
My mom was pregnant with me when she got the Hong Kong flu.
I was born in August 1957 . One of 9 of us. We were lucky and healthy.
Very Professional no need for panic, like shutting down the country. Shame on the media, CNN, MSNBC have made everyone paranoid. We need to open America back up and get back to work and school.
I had the Asian flu. I’ll never forget it.
Do you think that the government should have locked down the country or parts of it back then? Did they mandate masks?
@@aadityamurali18 They did not lock down the country and there were no mask mandates. Same thing in 1968, Hong Kong flu. No lockdowns, no mandates for either masks or vaccines. My mother got sick in 1957, I got it in 1968.
So you are like in your 70s?
@@audreymai2773 I’m 75.
@@audreymai2773 yes I am. 75
He just got beamed up to 2020
I had swine flu and my god the amount if snot was unreal . It just ran un rivers . I've never been so ill
I remember it well. No school for weeks (yeepee!).
There was in 1918. I can't find much info about 1957 measures.
The UK is missing from the map at the beginning
Whoa,how prophetic!
The ironic part is saying Pittsburgh has 1 million people.
The population has dropped to about 294K these days.
What a shame that the politicians let this happen to the economy of the area.
My high school graduating class was a little over three hundred ,now the same district is about a 100 graduate class size.
That’s the metro area dude
@@Fireneedsair I get it's Allegheny county and not the city in general,but still...
I remember Carl Ide when he wore a eyepatch.
That’s not because of the flu. It’s due to the loss, or rather, export of our manufacturing base to cheaper places like China and India.
6:00 in the United States it affected 20 million with 850 thousand deaths...
The biggest thing I got from this is that their won't be a "new normal" as some may want it. People have a habit of forgetting pandemics once their done. Even 1918 was described in much milder terms than what people are talking about it now.
There will be a new normal if the powers that be see this pandemic as an opportunity to push thru changes that amass power which are permanent
History repeats itself...
There’s plenty one can do to prevent the flu. Try basic health habits, diet, sanitation, avoiding crowds.
Just had my flu jab last week
Western Experience II where you at? On page 7 of that paper rn
I can’t wait until all of this is over because I am irritated from staying home and I need to go back to school.
@Slomofogo You sound like one of those people you hear calling into the radio stations in those Grand Theft Auto games.
No sound!
I had the asian flu with fever of 106 and out of my head and my Mom could only treat me at home through delerium.
We need over the counter Influenza tests...
The guy sounds like Tom Landry.
"We are prepared for the invasion."
The map on the wall is very inaccurate.
There is no Ireland, Indonesia or Sri Lanka + America is bigger than Africa.
2020 gang
3rd, "go to bed" 😂😂😂
Squeeeek no need for panic
The year I was born.
My mom was born same year. February 17th
Such a different approach to the pandemic! They want the people to be "alert but not alarmed!" They depended on Private Enterprise to create the vaccine! And the vaccine was ready to use in 3 months! [I guess the safety standards have changed since then.] I was 10 when this happened, and I recall that at one point 25% of children were absent from school. I assume the adults were sick in a similar proportion, since this flu did not affect children disproportionately.
They didn't overreact back then..no soy boys in that time...
@Slomofogo but they didn't closed the country down...u just get the flu you and your body fight it off or it might kill depending on your tolerance and immunity, panic like what we doing now... it's stupid what we are doing now, I would rather risk getting the virus and have my freedoms intact rather than this false security from this "social distance " bullshit, and I'm at greater risk of getting it...
@Slomofogo I think he means they acted stoically and professionally in the face of it and didn't exhibit the hysteria and panic that you're exhibiting.
Slomofogo don’t even bother man, these people are stupid
Not one image, not ONE proof that this "flu" happened as they tell it
Probably because The Asian Flu was nowhere near as lethal as COVID-19 is. Mortality rate for the Asian Flu was
But no pillow salesmen ?
what a load of criminals,
4:01 hes a skeleton now
17:22 hes a skeleton now
13:34 hes definitely a skeleton now
22:28 hes a skeleton too
If only we could have Dr. Crabtree instead of Dr. Fauci!
I sure wish we had these people helping, planning and keeping our country in the right hands and keeping all of America safe. Our government is not.
Wow. So much truth in the lies.
True professionalism - unlike 2020 where despotism has led to Political figures rather than medical professionals dealing with the epidemic.
When America was great, men were men, smoked unfiltered cigarettes, had hair on their chest, and *only wore masks when robbing banks.*
Q sent me
who is here watching the same propaganda play out in 2020/21...my word, so predicable & the same characters playing their roles
Just imagine what the world would have done without such a "safe & effective" jab. We've come so far with the "safe & effective" mRNA shots, right? What a joke.
Creepy video
Hahaha old fashioned pharmaeugenic add🤮