THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE CONTROL OF INFLUENZA*

doi:10.1059/0003-4819-43-3-534

THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE CONTROL OF INFLUENZA*

THOMAS FRANCIS, JR., M.D.

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It has been my privilege on several occasions in the past 20 years to review before The American College of Physicians the status of knowledge of influenza. The studies of influenza, a disease of fearful history, represented, in many ways, the opening wedge in the dissection of that large body of common respiratory disease of probable viral etiology. The investigations have required the continuous close integration of clinical, epidemiologic and laboratory investigation to gain understanding of an extremely complex problem, and have contributed extensively to the philosophy and methodology necessary for further clarification of the entire field of respiratory disease.

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Summario in Interlingua

In recente annos le facto ha essite establite que ultra influenzas A e B etiam un typo C e un typo D es frequente. Iste ultimes ha usque nunc essite de importantia solmente limitate in eruptiones epidemic. Le varietate del stirpes intra le typos augmenta le complexitate del situation, sed on crede que le stirpes de cata typo possede le mesme constituente antigenos e que lor differentias es determinate per differente dominantes. Iste conception permitte e reinfortia le spero que un vaccino pote esser elaborate in que omne le antigenos essential es representate. Information de alte valor ha essite colligite in re le distribution del anticorpores contra le differente stirpes in differente stadios de etate del population.

Es includite in le presente studio un résumé del nunc progredente studios controlate que es conducite per le Commission de Influenza. Le resultatos monstra uniformemente que un ben elaborate vaccino provide un alte grado de protection contra influenza, mesmo durante periodos de infrequente occurrentias del morbo. Il es a recommendar que vaccinationes contra influenza es usate plus generalmente.

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↵* From the Symposium on Preventive Medicine, presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1955.
From the Department of Epidemiology and Virus Laboratory, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Certain of these studies were conducted under the auspices of the Commission on Influenza, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and were supported by the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D. C.