Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-15
UNCLE SANS
ADVICE ON FLU
.. S. Public Heaith Service Issues
Official Health Bu1stin
on Influenza. Is
LATEST WORD on SUBJECT.

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gp>dswle Probably Not epan'sh IN
orsn,n-osm SUI unknewn-Pse-
Die ehevld Guard Asalnst "Drsplst
InSsetlen"-surssen os~srai eiSs
na'.ss Authoritative ssas'ms"t
Washingtoo, d. C-tSpeciai) al
though King Alfonso Of Spain was
one az the victims Of the inhuensa cpl
dsmse In lsoS and again this summer.
Spanish Authorities repudiate any
claim % influenza - q spanish" dis
ease. II the people OF this country do
cot take care The epidemic viii be-
cone 20 widespread throughout the
Unitsd ststes that sooa We shall hear
The disease called American inf'u-
ensa.
1 In response to . rsqsest for definite
information concerning Spanish influ-
enxa, Surgeon General Rupert Blue Of
The q. 8. Public Health Service has
authorized the following Official inter
view:
What u Spanish lnf'usnza1 10 It
something newt Does Il come from
spain5
1.-THE disease now occurring IN this
country and called Spanish 1nduen-
m resembles . very contagious kind
Of cold accompanied BY fever. pains
In the head. eyes, ears. back or other
parts Of the body and feeling OF Sc
we're sickness. In most Of the cases the
symptoms disappear after three or four
days, the patient then rapidly recover
ing. Some Of the patients, however.
develop pneumonia or Inflammation
Of the ear, or meningitis, and many Of
these complicated cases die. Whether
this so-called Spanish influenza II
identical with the epidemics Of inhuen-
u Of earlier years II not Jet known.
"Epidemics Of influenza have visited
this country since 1647. 1t Is interest
ing to know that this drst epidemic
was brought here from Valencia,
Spain. Since that time there have
been numerou. epidemics Of the dir.
CO.. In 1890 and 1900 an endemic
of influenza, starting somewhere In the
Orient, spread drst to Russia and
'nencs over placucaiiy inc en''fe CIV
ilized world. Three years later tnere
was another hare-up OF the disease.
Both times the epidemic spread wide
" over the United States.
ALTHOUGH the present epidemic is
called Spanish influenza there 10 no
reason to believe that It originated in
Spain. Some writers who have studied
the question believe that the epidemic
came from the Orient and they cali At
tention to the fact that the Germans
mention the disease a. occurring along
tho eastern front In the summer and
fall Of 1917"
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II slow.
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