Show Feeling By LE ANN BLODGETT The South Davis Community Hospital reports an increase in older patients due to complications of but not in the epidemic proportions reported by some of the Salt Lake THE PRESENCE of Port Arthur strain of influenza has been according to Utah State Division of Flu has reached epidemic proportions in though not a according to figures compiled by the State Bureau of Disease THERE IS no particular method for determining absenteeism due to flu in Davis County a few principals have reported dropped attendance due to according to a school district South Clearfield Elementary reported 45 of their students absent one day this THE VIRUS causes only a few days of discomfort for though some don't fare so is a definite relationship of bacterial pneumonia with says John P. Hospital Chief of Infectious a very small number of people with flu go on to develop he said it's fairly predictable that the number of pneumonia related deaths rise with influenza THE AGED and those with chronic lung or chronic heart disease are more likely to get |