RT Journal
T1 GOvernment services
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD April 18
VO 169
IS 16
SP 1944
OP 1944
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03000330116015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03000330116015
AB VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
    Personal.— 
    Dr. William W. Fellows, assistant chief medical director for planning, retired from the Veterans Administration on March 26, 1959, after having held that post since March, 1955.PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
    Influenza Outbreaks.— 
    Outbreaks of influenza B have been positively diagnosed in five areas of the United States: northern Indiana; central Iowa; Massachusetts; the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area; and southern Michigan. Influenza-like illnesses, resulting in high rates of absenteeism in some schools, have also occurred in the past few weeks in Denver and several other communities in Colorado and in west central Mississippi. The virus causing these outbreaks, however, has not been identified. All epidemics so far have been mild and have been confined chiefly to elementary and high school students. The pattern of these outbreaks, as well as the fact that physicians have protected many of their high-risk elderly patients with polyvalent vaccine, suggests that further