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Show COUNTY FLU CASES ZOOM ' With 1310 casf of influenza reported to the state health department, de-partment, 120 from Milford, the epiueir.-3 tias hit a ,-augerous high and precautions against infection in-fection are urged by county and state health officers. Reports from county health officers of-ficers and physicians over the state indicate that the epidemic is widespread wide-spread and continues to increase in number. A total of 17,023 cases were reported for the state for the week ending December 14, as compared with 4241 for the previous pre-vious week. Many schools report a number of teachers absent with the disease. Many inquiries have been received re-ceived by the state department of health concerning the effectiveness effective-ness and availability of influenza vaccine. Extensive research studies have " been made with influenza virus vaccine by many qualified workers during recent years. On (he basis of their findings and the findings of the National , Institute of Health of the United States Public Pub-lic Health Service, vaccine of types A and B influenza virus vaccine is being used by the armed services '.o protect the man against influenza. influ-enza. The effectiveness of the vaccine, as well as the duration of its protection, are still debatable questions, according to the American Amer-ican Medical association. Unfortunately, only a very limited lim-ited supply of influenza virus vaccine vac-cine has been released through the pharmacies to the physicians In practice. A check as of today indicates in-dicates that it may not reach the pharmacies in sufficient quantity to be of value in the president epidemic. epi-demic. Total communicable diseases reported re-ported for Beaver county include three cases of chicken pox, 1310 influenza, one pneumonia and three scarlet fever. |