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' " 'ru U £? r '"'v- ’'"iJ - "—5 - -- vi — — TT t TT - v:- - i - v MfW--' V Vfj : ATLANTA (AP) — The flu season flu reason started early On October)- turned out to be'fyirly typical despite an peaked between hue November anfl : December and declined rapidly through alarmingly severe start that killed dozens V children flooded v1'” and of emergency rooms 'February: with sick Iddsprimarily in the West the The fast start caused widespread fear : the United States Schools dosed across said government Thursday The percentage of doctor visits and because so many students came down with related to the flu were above averthe flu doctors had to turn away droves of flu seasons sick people end a vaccine shortage only other to but recent appear age have been worse the Craters for Disease v added to the woes ' The West was hardest hit Dr Kimberley Control and Prevention said For example a potent flu' attain made the 1999-200- 0 Shoaf assistant director for the UCLA season worse than this year Center for Public Health and Disasters” v VThe current season vm more severe said one reason might be that the flu strain than the previous three seasons but was changed as it moved West within the range expected” for a typical flu One of the hardest hit communities was ' i i in said officials Malad a study CDC Idaho a town of about 2J)00peo-the Utah state line that virtually Health officials do not keep a tally of flu near pie AP photo' shut down in early December because so cases because of the difficulty in tracking- Matt Mown being hald by Ns mother Bridget' the vims But an average of 36000 people many people were ill Church services and left reacts as RN Cariean Banks admWa die each year in the United States from the Christmas programs were canceled as Was tare Hu shot at the a DuPage County Health the wrestling match and drill team show flu according to the agency on Dec 11 The Department in Wheaton Health officials said the virus killed 142 Even Santa had to postpone hi visit with flu season turned out to be fairly typical children children this year The outbreak did not deapfla a severe start that kMed dozens of however be the fluseason Now for children to it 'chUdren flooded emergency rooms dosed especially deadly appears appear is over For foe second week in a row no at least for those under 5 officials said schools and virtuaty shut down one town In Idaho the government said Thursday state has had moire than sporadic activity According to preliminary CDC data this k ' i Brakw AP photo Andre King right asks Aron Ralston to give him a lflgh TVror instead of a Tfigh Rve1 on Wednesday when Ralston stopped into the Schod Age Classroom in the Greta Horwitz Learning Center of Warren Viage in Denver Warren VMage is a multHflmeneional agency that offers support for low income single parent families Ralston talked with students about his ordeal when his arm became pinned under a boulder and he had to amputate it while hiking in Utah : Climber credits God for le er nd ! : Before the vveather starts heating up off with a Dave Lennox Signaturf1 home comfortsystern— and cash in on big savings! praauctbulUuMilaMisyMi So If youW ptmtng to IntiU nwr tmUnp nd aniini product you mrf io wot to Eomkig conifeit cnntmltiiid lndo tk qmllty pwiducH CanMnln thne pnducts In one ijrMma It the twtf wqrloteai off Old cidi la f J estern echanicalIric Heating'& CiNiline Specialists 'r 'Y: 24 Hour Emergency' Service-- (43i5) ' 753-55- 1 ' : 5 ' r- " Call us 1 PUp loa $1000 Psb2t3? 4"iir£ flaiBM(hiMklMi’" M M fe flB CMpMtfM fhl" 6MMli Mi OplMV A Ktf ftS' LENNOX PEI © DAT O United Democrats Stats Safety Inspection Political Action Committee Celebrate Fraedwa Partw 10200- 4- 1616 Sumet DrivTu 3131 Utah ao RSVP Dell or Mvy one-hand- ed Lgimm howt coHifcat ystnn ws ‘ 1BQBNVIIDBVOIII gOMINUTIS April ed foe idea to cut off his arm DENVER (AP)— A year “In the end that idea came after he had to cut off his arm fitom someplace” he told foe to save his life adventurer childrem Aron Ralston told a rapt group Now fitted wifo a prosthetic of children he owed hu surarm Ralston has learned to vival to God “You guys know what a mir-- : play the piano climbed two more 14000-foot-ta- ll acle is right? I think what hapColorado mountains alone was miracle” a me to pened Ralston said Wednesday at and returned to skiing iuid w -mountain biking Warira Village a nonprofit He friaqs to run in a 100-misingle organizatidn that in August that begins and child race with and housing parents ends in Leadville elevation care ‘ 10100 feet Ralston was hiking alone Ralston’s book tentatively negotiating a canyon in southtitled “Between a Rock and a eastern Utah on April 26 2003 Hard Place” is due out inSep-tembwhen his right arm became 800-poubeneath an pinned boulder-Afte- r He hasn't been able to play other failed : or kayak in whitowaler on he freed himself attempts s of foe limits of bis foe fifth day by snapping his : : arm but he believes braes and using a knife to cut b’11 find a duoui his ana way “So far I've found a way to He apfdied a tourniquet and do eweryfoing I want to do” clambered out of the canyon ' Ralston said “A year ago if hike he found After a six-mi- le tourists who flagged down a you had asked me I don’t think I would have told you I could helicopter Ralston believes God provid- - have done it” hes I 'SriBiilltiMC(wwrwrion-PriickiiFri(liiiya&wrifcJ- ’ a 5 ' m ifwinQ Pf - ML Main Logan nfrhirri fiitiliiu 787-00- Hula IimTl Snm i 40 I Hri Injrflnn i |