Dear Family& Fiends I value and think About often:

I recently relearned a Truth from my childhood, that I had observed religiousl. In my over 60 years of being in Public and “shaking lot’s of hands,” before handling food, I would go to the washroom & wash my hands.

Recently, in both my ears and eyes I’ve had troublesome diseases; needing professional & expensive trips to doctors.

Apparently from the daily Jacuzzi hour, I’ve rubbed my feet and then my ears causing Athlete’s Foot infection in my ears; and a Virus infection in my eyes.

All this has reminded me again to be more careful. “You don’t have to see it to be hurt.”

From hall and floor banister’s & shaking hands etc., we mortals “pick up things.”

Yesterday, again I sat with Dr.& Mrs. Herschel Griffin; whose professional life has been invested in working with National Health problems, like the “Legionnaire’s Disease.”

I’m glad Janet postponed her trip to China. In case you don’t remember my “Flu’ experience and feeling . Here it is for “Scrolling& Deleting”

Here are a few words on a new book now being placed in our Library written by Gina Kolata

FLU The story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the search for the Virus that caused it.

For anyone who had a relative die in the Flu Plague of l918 this is a revealing and amazing story I always wondered why my father died in four days from the flu. He was a husky healthy School Teacher.

40 million, mostly healthy people died More American soldiers were killed by the flu than by World War One battles! The Epidemic influenced the course of history. More died from the Flu than were killed in all American wars except the Civil War.

If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with it.1.5million Americans would die.(more than all the diseases from which Americans are dying today!)

The author meticulously documents this tragedy in an adventure story way this lethal Virus (Spanish or Swine flu) that affected the whole Planet…The book reflects the ultimate frustration of Scientists and Doctors who know the murderer but not the weapon. Mankind dare not become complacent. It could happen again under

similar circumstances.

Caleb Shikles.