HAVE YOU GOT FLU?
OR UNDULANT FEVER? At the onset undulant fever in man is hard to distinguish from influenza. Gharacteristic symptoms care general malaise, headache, museular pains, and high temperature. Profuse sweating and constipation may also oceur. Sometimes the bout passes, and the patient congratulates himself on having thrown off an attack of influenza. On the other hand it may recur, and it has been known to drag on for weeks and months, and even years. In fact, it is from this habit of producing wavelike accessions of fever that it gets its name — undulant. i The only really comforting feature of the disease is that preventive aetion is simple. That is, drink only pasteurised milk. In most popullated areas this is now possible; The treatment of milk in those households that do not use pasteurised milk presents no difficulty. It is sirnply a matter of heating the milk to near boiling point and then cooling it as rapidly as possible. »
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 June 1952, Page 3
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162HAVE YOU GOT FLU? Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 June 1952, Page 3
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