Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1920 — SEVERE “FLU” EPIDEMIC UNLIKELY THIS WINTER [ARTICLE]

SEVERE “FLU” EPIDEMIC UNLIKELY THIS WINTER

“There is absolutely no way of definitely fortelling whether this winter will witness any recurrence of influenza in epidemic form,” said Surgeon General H. S. Cumming of the United States public health service recently. “As a result, however, of every careful analysis of the epidemicology of' influenza, especially as the result of intensive studies in homes where influenza occurred in 1918, it may be stated that an attack of influenza appears to confer a definite immunity to subsequent •attacks; an immunity lasting for several years.” _ ~ . “Inasmuch as the. epidemic of 1918 and 1919 affected so very large a proportion of the • population, it would not assume epidemic proportions of the past two years, nor would it rage in such severe form.