Blood Campaign Urges Polio Fight and Blood Donations
Miss Hood of the Providence Chapter Red Cross urged Rotary Club members to recruit volunteers for a Bristol blood drive next Thursday at Andrews School from 1 to 6 pm. The talk highlighted blood use for wounded service members and infantile paralysis, and explained plasma processing and gamma globulin's role. The government plans to collect 5 million pints, with distribution handled by state and federal agencies.
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Health for All Influenza and its Risks in 1918 Epidemic
The text explains that influenza often leads to pneumonia and other complications, contributing to millions of deaths in the 1918 global epidemic. It notes that modern medicine has reduced pneumonia deaths, but no cure exists for influenza itself, which is caused by a virus.
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