Show j Your Health The following us one of a series of articles furnished by Utah State Medical Association and published in cooperation v ith your local These articles are scheduled to appear every other throughout the year in an effort to better acquaint you with the problems of aid designed to improve the well-being of the people of Utah ASIAN FLU Now days everyone who feels a little ant of blames it on the oi a virus Talk with your friends who tell you they have touch of the and they'll relate a wide variety of symptoms fever But mostly they just feel Alot of these ailments are likely caused by but the genuine case of real Asian Flu most likely is not up and Asian Flu is a type of influenza that gained a lot of publicity because of the recent There have been flu epidemics one of the in this century was in 1918 and Asian Flu is B strain of the influenza family that got its name because it was supposed to have originated in The disease has been well studied and much Es known about The infection hits from one to three days after exposure usually through contact with a sick Often the onset is a sudden followed by a fever Often the throat and chest are But mainly the patient is all He is headachy and Although medicine knows much about Asian it does not know what to do about it The treatment consists solely of making the patient feel more comfortable while his body's own defensive mechanisms overcome the virus Aspirin lots of bed rest pos sibly are The illness usually inns its I course in two to five Temperatures up to degrees are occasionally Asian Flu won't kill but I it can weaken a person so that I other illnesses set Most of the deaths in the 1918 epidemic i resulted from pneumonia that j followed flu Modern day can control Many people can be immunized against Asian Flu by protective These shots have been available for several years and provide a high of protection The shots do not prevent the common but they will Asian Flu is a of an old disease that has plagued mankind for years It is caused by a virus and can be prevented by It is important to remember that if a high fever call your Flu symptoms sometimes can mask more serious |