Show Russian Influenza strain infects basin residents Russian a strain of an infectious disease of the respiratory has been isolated in the Uintah according to Ernest G. Director of the Uintah Basin District Health Prior to the holiday approximately children were absent from school with symptoms of upset muscle aches and sometimes Nasal drainage and sore throat were also noted among the This large number of illnesses caused the Disease Control State Division of to request a sampling of throat cultures and blood specimens from the ill Analysis of this sampling determined the strain affecting the youth in the Influenza is transmitted by direct through droplet or by articles freshly soiled with discharges of the nose and throat of the infected If you have influenza you are asked to please limit your association with large numbers of people until you are Practicing basic personal hygiene is a good preventive in the influenza vaccine for adults 26 years of age or older is available from the health Routine vaccination of healthy children and adults is not usually but check with your people with chronic conditions and the elderly should consider the vaccination because they are at a greater risk of complications if they catch according to health department |