European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ovies army Mil air Force motion picture service Europe Elizabeth Taylor in Tennessee Williams Success. Mccrea right has Indian trouble. Mangano Perkins whoop it up. Cat on a hot Jin Hoof in this film version of i Tennessee Williams stage hit Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor play a husband and wife on the verge of marital crack up. The Story of a divided family in which greed and opportunism appear on one hand unselfishness and Devotion on the other. Sophisticated met Romolor drama. A  s i out massacre this Story is based on an actual incident lost patrol near it. I Eri Inee . In 1870. Joel Mccrea plays a detachment commander whose Bate Lor indians causes him to take unnecessary Rusl woman correspondent upsets things and everyone has a Good time. Excellent a pc Loew s this angry Auk to Van flee needs $1,000 to turn waste land in indo China int. Rich Rioe f lds. Sylvano Shiiki Iii agrees to lure � pampered scion him giving her the Money. Anthony Perkins playing miss Van Fleet s son takes with wealthy Alida Valli refuses to return to the land Richard c Onte also appears. Technicolor. A Columbia Tak an s of kit for life Jordon Scott and eve Brent Star As Jar an and a Witch doctor vie to see who will hold Kwh Jim Over a Nagasue tribe. Tar an enlists the help of pygmies his friends escapes from a Dungeon salvos co of tribal Prince and eventually wins the Friendship of the naga huh. J he Jungle Kins wins again. Cinemascope. A pc Loew s Addre ii All let Len to 8 bag editor the stars and stripes Apo 175, . Forces i thud  and Odd Reid name will be deleted and kept confidential on request letters a be Cor denied for publication provided Luch editing does not alter the meaning of the original Page 10 the stars and stripes Protection against rabies i am writing to you in reference to an article which appeared in the starts and stripes on Sun Day oct. 5, 1958. The article con earned a person who was bitten by a suspected Rabid dog and received notice thereof too late for the Pasteur treatment to have an effect on his condition. The article which appeared on Page 2, mentioned that to take the. Serum would involve horribly painful treatment but went on to say that it was better than death from hydrophobia. I disagree with the presenta Tion of the problem on such terms. Last year my a year old Daugh Ter was also bitten by a dog which later died of symptoms which caused the Strong suspicion of rabies to he arrived at. A physician informed my wife that 1 then was no alternative but to give the Pasteur treatment 2 there was a Good Chance of reaction thereto and further stated that a reaction meant paralysis   in an attempt to ease the extreme anguish of the child s Mother i researched the facts about rabies and found that Many sup Posedly Well informed people Are misinformed about the treatment. The world health organization probably has the most Complete data on the subject and reports a reaction in every several thousand inoculations but Only one of several thousand having any reaction will have any per manent effects from it. My Daugh Ter had less than one degree Rise in temperature and no other effects except a sore Tummy from the Needles. I hate to think of the possible results had we decided to risk ignoring the treat ments in fear of the reactions to it. William a. Warde it us Navy editor s note United press International which distributed the Story referred to above says the Story was wrong in its re Ference to anti hydrophobia serum being a painful treatment. Only rarely does a patient have a bad reaction the up science editor says. The following information was provided by Orl Adam Rapalski preventive Medicine consultant at usar Kur he medical Divi Sion 1 Hysie ians in general will heartily concur with the writer of the letter in disagreeing with the presentation of the problem on such  the correspond ent has apparently gone to the trouble to review the literature and presents an unbiased View of the essential facts. It perhaps is of Public service to briefly review the important facets of a very complicated prob Lem that of rabies control it shies hydrophobia toll but rage  Lyssa is a wound infection with a specific virus. Man almost always contracts it from some lower animal usually by being bitten although even a scratch is enough to permit the virus to be introduced and cause infection. The disease is remark Able because of the variability in time of its development incubation period which in Man varies from two weeks to Many months and because of the. Fact that once it develops it is uniformly fatal. Spontaneous recovery from rabies naturally acquired is rare if it occurs at All since there is no Case recorded in the literature of such an event. Rabies is endemic in Domestic and wild animals in much of Europe. Only the following coun tries Are presently free of rabies Belgium Denmark since 1899great Britain since 1922north Ern Ireland since 1923norway the Netherlands since � / Portugal Sweden since l7i and Switzerland. For the past Sev eral years the Fox Deer eat cattle and dog have led the list of infected animals in that order in Germany with ten times us Many infected Fox As there  dogs roughly 1,000 each year. I. Section is not limited to these animals however. Some 22 ,.r species have been found Ith rabies. Occasional epizootic occur in localized areas in a Given species. Because of this and in keeping with the recommendations of tin world health organization s expert committee on rabies he . Army in Europe requires an Nual immunization against rabies of All Public and privately owned animals Usa eur circular 10-280. Also in keeping with the recommendations of the world health organization committee rabies committees have been established in All medical facilities to consider evidence and de cide what course of action to take in each individual Case suspected of having been exposed to rabies using the who committee s guide for treatment. This is Nec Essary because the present vac Cines used to immunize humans Are not entirely innocuous Al though usually reactions Are triv Ial and at most uncomfortable. But occasionally very serious re actions do occur leading to Paral Ysis and even death. As rightfully pointed out by the correspondent these Are very rare and vary from place to place and from people to people. Recent studies of hundreds of thousands of persons treated with such vaccines have shown paralysis in from 1 in 3,500 to 1 in 9,000 persons and death in Only 1 in 30,000 to 35,000 persons so treated. In India where in the period 1951-1955 Over 192,000 per sons received the Pasteur treat ment a most recent analysis showed that Only 1 out of every 19,000 had a paralytic Accident. These reactions of course must be weighed against the probability of developing rabies in which Case there is Only one outcome death. There is no doubt that Many persons undergo the Pasteur treatment needlessly and this facet is not sufficiently stressed by your correspondent. The Rea son for this is simple. A physician has no Choice but to Institute treatment if the animal that was responsible for the exposure escaped was killed  could not be found. All too often one of these conditions prevail. To avoid need less treatment it is essential that the Public learn that it is most important to have the offending animal caught alive and put under competent observation if at All possible. If it shows signs suggestive of rabies treatment can be begun at once. But if after five Days of observation rabies does not develop and the animal stays healthy treatment can be discontinued. If the animal is healthy at the time of exposure treatment can usually be safely delayed for a ten Day observation period of the animal. This can be done because of the unusually Long incubation period in humans the Only exception being severe bites about the face head  neck. This of course destroys the Only Organ that is useful in positively and scientifically prov ing whether the animal was  was not Rabid.  vaccines aimed at eliminating the danger of Para Lytic and fatal reactions Are Well along in the laboratories. One of these has now been licensed by the . Public health service for use in Man. Sunday november 16, 1958