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ill A TT Medfordi Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1957 8 Pages Asiatic Flu Symptoms Said To Be No Different From Other Variety By LOUIS CASSn s Uniled Pres. Correspondent Washington mlt you COme down wiih Asiatic flu this iu you'll feel just like you do when ! confirming by laboratory test you catch the i "at you ao nave Asiauc iiu. The new variety of flu, which has already swept through Asia positive diagnosis is desirable to alert public health authorities to the presence of the epidemic) there's no particular point in f v fa. ordinary kind of flu. The first warning prob ably will be a slight chill. Then your tcmperat u r e will shoot up to 102 or per- i.ouu Cassels haps as high as 104. You'll have a sore throat, cough and headache; your mus cles and joints will ache all over. You'll feel miserable for four or five days until the fever sub sides; weak and rundown for several days after that. Like the usual flu, it is rarely fatal. There have been only three deaths in 20,000 cases in this country so far. No Peculiar Symptoms If an epidemic of Asiatic flu is sweeping through your com munity when you get the symp toms, you can be reasonably sure, that's what you've got. But you needn't look for peculiar symptoms there aren't any. Even a doctor can't tell Asiatic flu from the ordinary kind without a laboratory test. Except for the first few cases in each community (in which ' - -! "-i--? "-"Hut ' - -. ' p4 ; ? . V", ,K"tffk 1 DYING in arms of wife, San ford Lemer, Chicago mer chant, is victim of assassina tion ambush. (International) m and South America, and which seems very likely to spread over the United States like a prairie fire this fall, has so far proved no more severe than ordinary flu. And the treatment is iden tical. Rest Important It consists of going to bed im mediately and staying there until 24 hours after your tem perature goes down to normal. Drink lots of liquids and eat a bland diet. 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