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Urges Flu Shots
Dr. Dennie P. McCarty, chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Warren-Rappahannock-Clarke Tuberculosis Association and Dr. L. O. Pears, Jy., Health Director for Clarice, Rappahannock and Warren Counties, urge flu shots for people who are over 46, chronically ill, especially with heart disease or tuberculosis, emphysema, or other chronic respiratory diseases, or pregnant women.
The U.S. Public Health Servioe has warned that Asian flu is about to strike again.
Elu generally leaves no permanent after-effects. But often, if care is not taken, other more serious diseases may invade the lungs. The most common complication is pneumonia. Anyone can get flu, especially when it is wide spread in a community. Children are particularly susceptible. The only' satisfactory way to prevent flu is by vaccination. Today’s vaccine is about 70 percent effective in preventing the disease.
Influenza, or "flu”, is a virus disease like a cold, only it is much more severe. Flu can keep a person in bed for five to ten | days with a fever up to 103 de! Sfrees. A person may have a sore throat, running nose, dry cough, headache, muscular pains lack of appetite and nausea. With these symptoms the patient should go to bed and call their doctor. He will prescribe the proper medicine and foods, diet and how long to stay in bed. However, it is best to consult your physician during September about getting a vaccine to prevent having flu, particularly the Asian strain
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