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Show TB & Hedth Assn. Urges Check-up So you'e 'never felt better. Never mind. It's timfe for your annual medical checkup. check-up. Go see your doctor! (Nobody has to make a case for annual checkups anymore. The case has already been made convincingly. Infections Infec-tions can be picked up without with-out realizing it, sudh as tuberculosis', tu-berculosis', for instance. Anyone Any-one can get TB by breaming in the germ from the air at anytime. There are no symptoms; in thte earliest stages of active TB. A person may not be aware he is sick and could be spreading germs to others. If your are infected with TB germs, you can avoid getting sick with atftitve TB by taking pills called iscmiazid. Your doctor can find out if your are infected with TB Igenms by giving you a tuberculin tuber-culin test. And he carp give you the results in a matter of days. Don't be surprised this year at your medical checkup check-up if your doctor asks about anther matter that affects .the condition of your lungs; cigarette smoking. More and more debars these days are . asking their patients about their smoking habits. Annual medical checkups and a resolve to quit smoking smok-ing are two essentials to be cure your lungs are working the way they should. It's a matter of life 'and breath. So states your Utah Tuberculosis and Health Association. As-sociation. And 'the UTHA has the facts. |