The flu season is approaching

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Your nose is runny, your throat is sore, and you feel exhausted and exhausted. The reason for this is often a cold, which doctors call a viral infection. The flu can have up to 30 different pathogens, including the well-known rhinoviruses. After a few days of rest, however, the world seems to be back in order again in most cases. It should be emphasized, however, that a cold, like the flu, can also be severe.

The "real" one flu

"Even we, as doctors, sometimes have a hard time figuring out if it’s a cold or the flu.", admits general practitioner dimitrios lazanakis.

Flu is triggered by influenza viruses. Symptoms like muscle-, limb-, headache, bronchitis and fever appear very fast and strong. If the flu is severe, it can cause pneumonia, meningitis or cardiovascular problems. Thus, possible complications can prolong the duration of the illness, which is usually five to seven days.

To help patients, it’s important to seek treatment in time, says doctor. First, a swab is taken from the nose and throat with the aim of finding out which virus is involved. "Flu viruses are constantly mutating, which is why there are so many subgroups", explains lazanakis. The so-called H3N2 viruses have become particularly common.

Dried up slimy skin

Especially in the autumn and winter months, people complain about the flu. But why actually? "The viruses survive best in cold and dry air", doctor lazanakis clarifies the situation. This dries out the mucous membranes and makes them more vulnerable to attack, which makes it easier for viruses to take hold.

Even in the summer months there is a risk of catching the flu.

In addition, the rooms are more irregularly ventilated during the cold season, which means that the pathogens remain in the air. Through droplet infection, i.E. Coughing or sneezing, they get into the mucous membranes of others. "We have to distinguish between a flu season and a flu wave, there is a clear difference between them!", says lazanakis.

A season is the period from the beginning of october to the middle of may. Whereas the period from january to april is called a wave – when most people suffer from flu and it has its highly active phase. "In the last flu season, one out of four patients who came to my practice was infected with flu viruses", lazanakis says the majority of them had not been vaccinated. Which, however, was necessary.

Clemens richter, press spokesman for kronach pharmacies, adds: "the actual risks of vaccination are much lower than the more serious consequences of influenza."

Vaccine for prevention

The robert koch institute monitors flu outbreaks and their most dominant viruses. The best adapted among them are vaccinated. Lazanakis says: "it’s a vicious circle. The vaccine has to be constantly adapted because the viruses mutate so quickly."

In order not to take a risk, he is clearly in favor of having his vaccination refreshed every year. It should also be taken into account that the vaccine only reaches its full effectiveness within 14 days. "I would particularly like to address people who belong to the risk group – people over 60, pregnant women, HIV patients, medical staff and the chronically ill, i.E. Those suffering from diabetes or COPD" appeals lazanakis. New this year is that the health insurance will cover the cost of vaccinations for everyone.

Although there were shortages of flu vaccine in some places last year, things are looking good this year. Richter is confident: "at the moment all pharmacies in our region are well supplied. It is understood that this is a snapshot."

Accordingly, it is possible that the situation could be different again in a few weeks’ time. At the moment, according to richter, there is no cause for concern, as there is no shortage of vaccines to fear.

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The year with the great concert with kathy kelly ends with the farewell of the conductor

An era comes to an end at the grobheirath choral society. Horst angermuller, who has led the mixed choir since 1967, lays down his conducting baton. He held it in his hands for over 50 years. Angermuller wanted to stay with the choir as tenor singer.

Angermuller, who had been deputy director since 1961, was specially honored at the general meeting. Together with edeltraud obermuller, chairwoman of the singing group itzgrund, the chairman prof. Walter strohmaier received a special commemorative gift and a certificate.

Horst angermuller looked back and could tell of many wonderful experiences with the choir. "Without the singers the choir leader is nothing", he said. In spite of all the work in his farm, he enjoyed doing this job for the association. "I often got down from the combine or tractor, changed my clothes and conducted the choir at a wedding or other celebration, and then went straight back", he paid angermuller. Criticism from the singers has always spurred him on to improvement. He had attended many further training courses and successfully completed the training as a state-approved choir director in amateur music. But he also learned a lot for his choir work from the group singing lessons. He has always worked very well with the club leaders of the past 50 years, also with the choirmaster of the gospel choir, thomas gunther.

During the meeting, the future of the association and its chorus was discussed. The members decided that the two choirs, the mixed choir and the gospel choir, should initially form one choir for half a year, which will be directed by thomas gunther. The singing sessions will take place weekly on sunday evenings at the fischer inn. In addition, one wants to found a project choir. It is hoped that this will attract new singers.

Horst angermuller complained in his choir director’s report that the attendance of the mixed choir after the summer break had been poor. Only after a few weeks it had improved again. The performances, including the advent concert, were very well mastered by the choir. Angermuller thanked thomas gunther and karin rittweger, who were responsible for voice training.

The highlight of the year was the concert with kathy kelly on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the gospel choir in the church in grobheirath. The intensive rehearsals for the sold-out concert had been worthwhile, because everything had worked out very well. "It wasn’t easy, it was a challenge for everyone", looked back thomas gunther. The whole choir pulled together, the choir director was pleased to say, and the audience, which had come from all over upper franconia, was totally enthusiastic, gunther noted. At the advent concert, the choir and the mixed choir presented a fantastic sound. "We can sing together, whether in english or german", gunther emphasized.

Chairman walter strohmaier looked back in his report on the events and announced data from the group meetings and the kreissangertag. So the grobheirath singing society has a total of 74 members, including 42 active, 25 in the mixed choir and 28 in the gospel choir. Eleven members sing in both choirs. The gospel choir completed 27 choir rehearsals last year. About 20 singers were present at the meeting. Strohmaier praised the volunteer choir director thomas gunther, who travels all the way from nurnberg for choir rehearsals and performances.

In the mixed choir, the number of active members has remained the same, with one departure and one new member. Karin rittweger takes over as interim choir director. The mixed choir has held 36 singing lessons in the past year. Margot nesbor, karin rittweger and gerold hummer attended all choir rehearsals or singing lessons in both choirs and were specially honored for this.

"The choral societies are the symphony orchestras of the small communities", said mayor udo siegel in his greeting. He praised the many activities of the choral society. The board of directors and the choir leaders did an excellent job. Mst

The prichsenstadt city council determined street names in the ziegelgarten VI residential area. Development planned for spring.

The new ziegelgarten VI development area in prichsenstadt is scheduled for completion in the spring with 22 plots of land. In order to register the results of the surveys and the new land plot in the land register, the city council decided on the names of the streets and the house numbers in its most recent meeting.

The future neuburgers live on the road to the well house and on the larchen road. Zur brunnenstube is the perpendicular southward continuation of the existing street of the same name from the residential area above. "That’s why it makes sense to name it that way," said burgermeister rene schlehr from. The second road is planned as a ring road and should have been called either larchenweg or eichenweg.

Possible alternative

Alternatively, schlehr had named the road hugo-knauer-ring, in memory of the honorary burgher who died in march 2010. The former elementary school principal had been honored for many activities, among others as municipal clerk of bimbach, as town councilor and second mayor. He is also a bearer of the ring of honor of the city of prichsenstadt. Naming a street in this residential area after him met with little approval from the councilors.

Helpful names

Ursula reiche, for example, advocated the use of a "tree name". For the roads of the construction area are planned in such a way that it can be enlarged. "When i was out at night on house calls and drove into a settlement with street names like flowers, it helped me a lot to quickly find the right street," says the retired doctor. What would hardly be necessary in this day and age with navigation devices, according to one of the counter-arguments. Nevertheless, the "tree names" prevailed, and were accepted by a vote of 9:5.

Both the motion of the third mayor martin ebert, who had named the ring after hugo knauer (12:2 rejected), and the motion of helmut happel, who had even introduced three street names, were rejected.

Further topics of the council

The adoption of the 2019 budget of the hospital foundation of the city of prichsenstadt was a purely formal matter. With income and expenses, the budget comes to 109 550 euros. Loans for investments are not foreseen. Cash credit is estimated at 5000 euro. After no questions to kammerer marco, the council unanimously approved the budget.

From the agenda

The application of the munch energie company from rugendorf was dealt with more quickly. The company had liked to build a flat photovoltaic plant in stadelschwarzach, with a gross of 4.5 hectares and a power of 3.5 megawatts. The mayor had obtained an opinion from the district administration office. He could have saved himself the trouble, because helmut hummer had pointed out to him shortly before the meeting that the council had passed a resolution in principle in 2010.

At the time, after a similar request, the council decided that there would be no urban land use planning or zoning for such photovoltaic systems. After no one in the council made any move to change this basic decision, the mayor took the item off the agenda.

The "real" one flu

Dried up slimy skin

Vaccine for prevention

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