Show NO O ONE E DIES lUES OF 0 nu FLU I Influenza shorn or of its atS Boris Karloff nature by the ls turns out to toi tU i n a disagreeable disease which t n never ver kills Its but millions I low temporarily The facts about In- In Influenza which doctors now find to be a I group of diseases instead ot of a disease are aro i told In the tho February Readers Reader's Digest Lois Mattox Miller well known medical commentator who points out that even 1 In tho historic epidemic ot of 1918 when flu swept the world and vie vic victims turns tims nobody died died from flu but buttrom rather from pneumonia and other sec sec- secondary secondary I ailments which set In after flu had bad weakened the patients Now thanks to the sulfa drugs and penicillin pneumonia I monia seldom Is fatal I I Medical research says the Digest article having debunked the theory that flu is n. n killer also has debunked the popular J beliefs that flu runs rOns In 25 year 25 cycles I and Is the Inevitable fellow tra eler celer ot of war There always are flu cases I Ito to 1 be found and In the past decade thero have bave been every two years I II I It apparently is futile to try to escape the 1 flu It if It Is around says the article tinny Many people are full tull ot of flu viruses and I dont don't even know lt It You might success success- successfully I tull fully avoid everybody who Is ill yet contract the disease from somebody who Is spreading It right and left without j I Ia a single f symptom ot of his own On theother the other hand band 1 11 you are in n. n flu ridden household for tor 72 hours bours and are not sick trio the chances are you will get by scot scot- tree free Once you get the flu flu It must run Its course Medicines may make a case ot of flu I more bearable but they dont don't shorten Its duration by a single hour But patients should call caU the doctor for tor two reasons To diminish suffering and to watch for tor forthe I the possibility of pneumonia There Thero Is no known cure ure however for tor flu or for any other virus disease I The Digest article says that the future I holds the promise of immunization treat treat-I treat treat- treatments ments to nip epIdemics In the bud A serum method effective with 9 9 p persons out ot of 10 10 was first reported by n. n group ot of Russian scientists In 1040 The serum Is made mado by vaccinating horses or rab- rab rabbits rabbits bits with human Influenza The treatment Involves vaporizing the serum and blowing It once ti h week Into the nose and throat ot of the patient Now ver very expensive this treatment may become available on a mass basis after atter the war the article predicts Meanwhile the serum Is ready for tor use on any emergency say basis for tor im- im immunizing all the doctors and nurses In n. n stricken community or or for tor keeping healthy the crow crew ot of a warship heading toward n. n battle I |