The Nation - News from Jan. 13, 1985

The flu season appears to be getting under way throughout California, but few cases have been reported so far in Los Angeles County, health officials said. “We’re having a light year,” said Dr. Shirley Fannin, head of the county health department’s communicable diseases division. “We’re not expecting a heavy impact.” State officials said the winter’s first major outbreaks of an influenza first isolated in the Philippines have turned up in Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey and San Diego counties. Fannin said the Philippines flu is a variation of the Hong Kong flu.