The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 31, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 5, 1982 Page: 3 of 65
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday, December 5, 1982
Winter Heralds Coming Of Flu Season
By WARREN E. LEARY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Winter
means the coming of cold winds*
gray skies and snow, but it also
heralds the season of the most fre-
quently occurring infectious il-
lness in the country—influenza.
The flu is so familiar that most
people take it for granted.
They forget that it is a serious
iOf
deathseach year and costs the na-
tion billions of dollars in medical
costs and lost earnings.
The following are questions and
answers about flu and its impact:
Q. What kind of disease is flu?
A. Influenza is a family of con-
tagious respiratory diseases
caused -by viruses. It is most
prevalent during winter -and af-
-flicts* people worldwide. Out-
breaks in local communities are
called endemic, while those affec-
ting- a state or country can
become epidemics. A rare out-
break that strikes worldwide is
called a pandemic.
Q. How severe a flu season do
experts expect this winter?
A. No one knows. The federal
Centers for Disease Control says
the 1981-82 season walrunusually
mild. Relatively few cases were
reported with widespread activity
in only four states compared with
32 states the previous year. Ex-
perts say no new flu strain has ap-
peared so far to suggest a bad up-
coming season, but it’s too early
to tell.
Q. How many* kinds of flu are
there?
A. There are three major types
of influenza viruses, designated
A, B and C. They are all related,
but flu A is more common and
most serious. Type C seldom is a
major health problem. And while
type B can cause large outbreaks
of serious disease,-It usually is far
milder and less threatening than
type A.
* Q. Why is type A so bad?
A. It can spread around the
world in a matter of months, with meuthr-
Q. What are the symptoms of
from viruses shed by those pre-
viously infected. The viruses
typically enters the respiratory,
tract through airborne droplets
and lodge in the nasal passages.
They also can reside on surfaces
contaminated by sufferers, such
as telephones, and be transferred
by the hands to the nose and
beginning of flu season. Because
it may take two weeks for flu im-
munity to build up, .these people
should not wait until the disease is
detected in their community to
get vaccinated.
q! If people had flu shots in the
past, do they need another?
a lot„of illness and death. Every
known pandemic has been caused
by type A viruses, They can
mutate into new strains readily,
bypassing any acquired immuni-
ty people may have developed
from previous infections.
Q. Who is susceptible to flu?
A. Everyone, but to different
degrees. People who have had one
type of flu may develop immunity
to a closely related strain. But
because there are so many
varieties — and more developing
constantly — virtually everyonp
is. at risk. However, a recent
study in Israel also indicates
those who smoke cigarettes are
more likely to catch flu and get
sicker from it than nonsmokers.
Q. Are the risks and con-
sequences of flu the same for
everyone?
A. No. Serious complications
such as pneumonia and death are
more likely in certain high-risk
groups: people over 65, those
chronically U1 with heart, lung
and kidney diseases, sufferers of
sickle cell or other severe
anemias, severe diabetics and pa-
tients whose immune systems ar.e
depressed, because of organ
transplants or cancer therapy.
Q. Howdoyou catch flu?
A. The disease is contracted
flu?
A. Symptoms begin to appear 24
to 48 hours after infection and
may last from a few days to more
than a week. They include fever,
chills, malaise, sor;e throat,
cough, respiratory congestion,
nasal discharge, headache,
watery or burning eyes, muscle
, ache aqd loss of appetite.
Q. How do you treat flu?
A. Common flu treatment
basically involves easing the
symptoms while your body rides
out the disease. This means tak-
ing aspirin or acetaminophen to
control fever and aches, an-
tihistamines for congestion and
A. Yes. Protection against one
type does not automatically ward
off another, even if it’s closely
related. And, immunity from
shots decreases with time arid
should be bolstered.
Q. How much do the shots cost?
A. Industry figures indicate flu
vaccinations cost between $10 and
$12 each, and pneumonia shots
between $12 and $15 apiece.
■Prices vary depending on
whether a person gets shots at a
public clinic or. a doctor’s office,
where an office visit charge may
be attached, Although the govern-
ment recommends flu shots for
the elderly, it does not pay for
them under Medicare, while
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cough . medicine^.’ Bed rest, . ,
nutritious foods and plenty of li- ^ PPeumonia shots are covered
quids also are recommended. --
Q. How else can you treat flu or
prevent it and its complications?
A. Flu vaccines, made from the
viruse§ thefhselves, can prevent
the disease. Since most flu-
related deaths stem fromsubse-
quent pneumonia, new anti-
pneumonia vaccines also can
help. ,
Q. Who should be vaccinated?
Q. Do flu shots have side ef
fects?
A. The latest vaccines have $
bepn associated with few adverse
side effects. Less tnan one-third
Df vaccine recipients suffer tem-
porary akin redness and tissue
hardening at the injection site.
Fewer than 5 percent suffer
fever, muscle ache or l'istlessness
lasting one or two days. Symp-
■A. The government _______^ ___________
mends that all high-risk people mon in people who have new
get flu and pneumonia shots at the beu,re received a flu shot
recom- toms are somewhat more.com-
/er
‘All They Want Is Peace’
Taiwan Rejects Reconciliation
5TIHL
'STHE WORLD’S LARGEST SELLING CHAIN 8AV ‘
.. TAIPEI, ThiWah
(AP). — To some,
Taiwan is a staunch
and much-abused
anti-Communist bas-
tion of the free world.
'To others, if is a
political embar-
rassment that will
not go away.
Since 1949, this
large island off the
China mainland has
been the seat of the
Nationalist Chinese
government in exile.
In the last 11 years
it has been buffeted
by international
storms chat might
have sunk less buoy-
ant societies.
Ousted from the
United Nations in
* WlrMts' diplomatic *
ties with all the
world’s major na-
tions including the
United States
severed since 1979, it
refuses to stop mak-
ing an international
nuisance of itself.
It refuses to com-
promise with its long-
time enemy in Pek-
ing on an agreement
years of hostility and
lead to unification of
China,
The death ~of
former President
Chiang Kai-shek -in
1975 in no way Altered
the Nationalists’
stony refusal to grasp
the Communist hand
of reconciliation,
although their
prestige has suffered
and their best friend,
the United States,
considers Peking’s
terms generous.
“The people here,
do not wish to
negotiate away their
freedom and
democracy,” says
James Soong, the top
government spokes-
man:- “The-nattCnal
consensus is that we
do not want commu-
nism. We have every-
thing to lose and no-
thing to gain.”
Since the Na-
tionalists came here
in defeat in 1949, the
island’s 18 million
highly motivated peo-
ple have developed
Asia’s highest sta
lard of living ajtpr
Japan. Per capita an-
nual income is more
than. $2,000 and ex-
pected to hit $6,200 by
the end of the 1980s,
10 times that of the
mainland.* *
Trade hovers
around'$40 billion a
year and 1-9 8 2
economic growth, in'
a global business
slowdown, is estima-
ted at a.respectable 5
percent.
Taiwan rejects —.
for reasons partly
emotional, . partly
logical — Peking’s
seductive offer to
continue to go its own
way economically,
politically and inter-
nationally — even to
keep itf''swtt armed
forces — if it will fly
the flag of the Peo-
ple’s Republic.
Older Nationalists
here have long
memories, and
neither defeat nor
success has eased
their abhorrence of
communism.
Aware that Pek-
see • creation of a
military deterrent as
urgent. They reject
President jtaoald
Reagan’s ar^fment
that U.S. arms sales
to Taiwan can be
phased out because
China poses no pre-
sent threat and is a
key strategic factor
in curbing Soviet ex-
pansion in Asia.
“It may he quiet
militarily now,” says
Soong, “but you can’t
tell what will happen
next on the mainland.
And you can’t rely on
Peking as an ally. In
the United Nations, it
voted with Russia on,
Poland, the Mideast,
the Falklands and El
"jimmy Wei, 77-
year-old publisher of
an English-language
newspaper here,
thinks t h e i n-
dependence . move-
ment holds no appeal
for people in Taiwan.
“Small business peo-
ple, housewives, or-
dinary people, 'all
lag
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 31, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 5, 1982, newspaper, December 5, 1982; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1075072/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.