Show j Your Flu Shot Can R Really ally Be Valuable Should I take a flu shot shott I This Is the question that crops up regularly ot et this time of the year when cold and wintry like weather heralds the approach of the Danger season The commonest com corn monest causes of Illness ate are various vari varl various ous respiratory Infections Of these influenza is the most serious and reaches epidemic form torm about every two or three years No epidemic is anticipated this year rear I The flu vaccines are not one onehundred onehundred I hundred percent indicate that vaccinations vaccinations' against Influenza provide from 60 CO to 80 SO SOper I per cent protection So immunization atlon is not assured but the protective pro I teethe shots are recommended by the Public Health Service the U. U S. S Department of Health and I the Utah State Medical Associate The flu shots are arc particularly important for tor middle aged and older people and for pregnant women because the disease is ismore ismore ismore I more serious nn when it occurs in nn these groups Influenza takes its greatest toll among those who are chronically ill with such debilitating diseases as high blood pressure rheumatic heart disease asthma bronchitis tuberculosis and hardening of ot the arteries The health hazard from flu has been lessened considerably the the past few tew years as the vaccine has been improved and more people have taken the shots S Surgeon Burgeon General Luther L. L Ter I ry In urging the public to get flu shots emphasizes that the chronically chronic ally ill and those over forty five but especially those over sixty sixty- five should be vaccinated Por I some of these people timely Immunization Im may be a life saving measure he reports I |