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Show mortality from epidemic flu include in-clude patients with rheumatic heart disease, arterioslerotic heart disease, and hypertension, especially those with cardiac insufficiency. For advice about your heart always ask your doctor; for information ask your Heart Association. Mayonnaise thinned with pickle juice goes well on vegetable veg-etable salads. Heart patients may need flu vaccine The U.S. Public Health Service Ser-vice recommends vaccination against influenza, especially in the "high risk" groups. Vaccination Vacci-nation should begin as soon as practicable after September 1, and be completed by mid-December. Since there is normally a two-week delay in antibody development, de-velopment, it is important that immunization be carried out before influenza occurs in the immediate area. The Utah Heart Association advises people with heart disease di-sease to consult their doctors regarding influenza vaccination. vaccina-tion. There were local flu outbreaks out-breaks in Utah last year, but no epidemic. Health authorities authori-ties can not forecast epidemics, but once started they usually run a full course, dealing death and disability over wide areas. Travel volume to and from the Far East may contribute contri-bute to the entrance of Asian flu strains into the United States, as was believed in the large costal epidemic last year. Groups experiencing high |