European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday september 30, 1977 i. Spotted fever outbreak modern Medicine Are a so common m eos by Michael j.  Mountain spotted fever a typhus like disease transmitted by the bite of an infected tick is no longer confined to the Rock Mountain states where it was first discovered in this country nor is it confined to the tick season of april through  about half the reported cases occur East of the Mississippi with Virginia and North Carolina leading. Every state except Alaska Hawaii Wisconsin Maine and ver Mont has reported cases through 1975.moreover, outbreaks Are occurring in specific areas. For example an unusual number of cases have occurred during the past 30years in Clermont county Ohio and in suf Folk county Long Island . And Between 1960 and 1974, spotted fever struck 32 persons on Cape cod six on Martha s Vineyard and  Rod shaped microscopic organism Rickettsia Rickettsia causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The germ is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected Wood tick or dog tick. On the East coast the dog tick is most Likely to transmit the disease although Only 1 to 5 per cent of ticks carry spotted fever and not All of these actually transmit the disease. The Rickettsia enter the bloodstream incubate 3 to 10 Days then cause inflammation of the inner lining of the blood vessels. Next come sudden fever chills headache and Bone pain which May be mistaken for measles Orother diseases. After a week Many red spots appear on theorists and Ankles then on the entire body including the Palms and soles. If caught in time the fever can be easily cured with the Antibiotic tetracycline. But if the illness is not treated during the first week it can prove fatal. Be family delayed a week before Takin their 5-year-old daughter to a doctor and she nearly died from serious blod clotting an kidney complications. The family had been hiking in the West Virginia Woods and an infected tick accompanied them Home. Rocky Mountain spotted fever is not common illness but the annual number of cases has risen dramatically since the late1960s. Each year about 5 to 10 per cent of people infected with tick fever die needlessly because the disease is curable. Tick fever is easier to treat than to prevent. In a sense it is an ecological disease. Chang ing patterns of land use cause suburbanites to encounter ticks in wooded Back Yards. Hunt ers fishermen campers hikers and other outdoors men increasingly go where ticks live. And vice versa. One woman found an engorged tick about the size of a pea on the in across 1 charade in part 4 Algonquin Indian 7 Bovine manuals 11 modern Jujitsu 13 exclamation 14 not on tape 15 biblical brother 16 Houston 17 food plan 18 tears 20 cry 22 under us weather 24 sinbad for one 28 words to a laggard 32 Pithy saying 33 table spread 34 censor speech 36 girl s name 37 a Guries 39 medieval outer garments 41 Law enforcers 43 conjunction 44 when one and Twenty. 46 army officer 50 dressed 53 Heflin or Johnson 55 Robe for Caesar 56 own 57 word with Way or track 58 Pitcher 59 decorates a cake 60 Evergreen tree 6 actress Grant Down 1 partly opened 2 country bumpkin 3 of thieves 4 Call for help 5 pursuer of moby Dick 6 unconscious states 7 Maryland 8 Homan 12 9 miss Arden 10 openwork fabric avg. Solution time 25 min. 9-30answer to yesterday s Puzzle. Deride of her breast. She had been sitting other daughter s living room sofa where the family cat liked to sleep. She did not develop spotted fever but she has not visited her daughter  infected tick must be attached four to six hours before transmitting the disease but sometimes it takes that Long to discover thetic. Thus it should be removed As soon As  it very carefully with tweezers not with  hot cigarette or match head held near the tick or alcohol lighter fluid or Fingernail polish will often dislodge the intruder. If it does not detach after several attempts a doctor should remove  the tick is crushed during removal the surrounding skin May become contaminated. Spotted fever also May be transmitted by rub Bing the eyes or touching a skin wound after handling the tick. Sterilize the tweezers i boiling water after touching the tick and scrub the hands  precautions for persons living in or visiting wooded areas examine yourself and your children regularly for ticks. Carefully Check the body where clothing is tight and where hair grows. Wear Long pants and socks and pull the socks outside the pants legs to keep ticks from crawling underneath. If fever chills aches and fatigue occur do not assume they Are influenza or a  they May mean Rocky Mountain spotted Ever. C new York times so called Nantucket fever detected in other . Areas new York not a malaria like infection that first appeared in this country on Nan Tucket Island off the Massachusetts coast has now been detected on the tip of Longisland. Experts suspect that the infection called babes Osis is not As rare As they once  epidemiologists at the Center for disease control in Atlanta said that just 27 cases of babes Osis in humans had been recognized in the world. Some cases were fatal. The infection was once thought to be confined to animals. Babes Osis is caused by a parasite Baberia Microni that is transmitted to humans through tick bites. The insects pick up the parasite from infected mice. The disease is no believed to be confined to seashore areas. Answer to Puzzle if you were Able to do the crossword Puzzle in yesterday s paper you Are a Genius since there is no Way that most of the definitions could have been fitted into the spaces provided. As you probably guessed after not too Long a time one of those famous technical errors caused a mix up of Puzzle and clues. Now her below is the Correct mating of definitions and squares and As a Bonus the an Swers to the clues you never saw. 12  Constitution 19 wily 21 Waddle 23 ear like projection 25 Star state 26 1/eave out 27 radicals 28 kind of skirt 29 chilean Timber tree 30 female ruffs 31 Moccasin 35 Sailor 38 stitch 40 alcoholic liquor 42 Region of France 45 companion of safe47 Cheek by 48 a shaped molding 49 unusual 50 greek letter 51 resinous secretion 52 end of a Knave 54 untried although the number of diagnosed cases is very Small new reports raise the possibility that the infection might be going undetected particularly in tropical areas where malaria is common according to or. Myron g. Schultz an expert in the epidemiology of parasitic diseases at the Atlanta  fever chills muscle pains lethargy and sometimes dark urine that characterize an attack mimic the symptoms of  the parasites that cause babes Osis and malaria resemble each other under the Micro scope. Since the first human Case was detected i Yugoslavia in 1957, French Irish mexican and american doctors have diagnosed at least26 other human infections. Because the first few cases occurred in patients whose spleen were surgically removed doctors thought that removal of this abdominal Organ resulted in an immunological disturbance that mad patients More susceptible to the parasitic infection. Then the first Case in an otherwise health person was reported in 1970 from Nantucket. In the last seven years 18 additional cases have been diagnosed in this country. Thirteen were on Nantucket which led some doctors to Call it Nantucket  another Case was on nearby Martha s Vineyard three on Shel Ter Island which is off the Eastern tip of Long Island ., and one each from Georgia an California. S crossword 15 is 28 41 so 59 29 51 30 22 19 38 13 16 23 34 6o 20 3t 39 45 is1 21 46 14 17 58 48 10 49 9-30 qftd0fs dear Ann Landers you will probably think this letter is take but i. Give you my word of Honor it is real. I am 15 years old a girl. Inthe last year or so i have had a problem that has caused me a lot of embarrassment. Whenever laugh hard i wet my pants. Lately it s been happening almost every other Day but so far Only with girlfriends. If it should happen when i am with Aboy i would just die. I asked my Mother what to do about it and she said it would go away and not to worry that Shehad the same problem when she was my  you give me some advice Normal or what dear . I took your prob Lem to a top notch urologist or. Russell b. Roth of Erie Pennsyl Vania. He called it stress incontinence a fancy name for no being about to hold it. He says this condition is common among women who have had children and experienced a general weakening of the muscle slings that normally hold the bladder in place. When these Muscles become weakened they cannot do the Job of protecting against a sudden surge of pres sure caused by coughing sneezing laughing jumping or coming Down from a High step. First you should be examined by a urologist to make sure you Don t have an organic problem. Chances Are very Good that Youdon to if you Are . Physically the trouble is that you let your bladder get too full. Some teen agers drink a lot of milk or pop and get too Busy to go the remedy is two fold. One empty your bladder More frequently. Two exercise the mus cles of control by starting and stopping the urine flow voluntarily several times a Day. This should solve the problem. Dear Ann Landers i have two adorable grandchildren six an nine years of age. Their dad left my daughter last year and Ever since that time she has had Oneman after another living with her. I was t brought up that Way and it just kills me. Last week she let a miserable creep move in and this one is the worst. He has t got a Job and the two of them sleep till noon. The Little girls get their own break fast and do everything for them selves. I have offered to make Home for the children but my daughter moans i could t give up my children. What would people say i wonder what she thinks people Are saying now with such a Parade of bum moving in and out. I m not writing for advice Ann. I know you can t solve this problem but i Hope you will print my letter. Maybe if my daughter sees herself in the newspaper Shell shape up. Ashamed grandma dear grandma Here s your letter but Don t expect any Mira cles dear. You can do nothing except stay close try to be a Posi Tive influence in the family an Hope your daughter cleans up her act. Confidential to waiting for my ship to come in i read every word of your five Page letter and now i have a question for you. Are you sure you sent one out c 1977 Field enterprises inc