European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 2, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 advantages Over older treatments new vaccine May subdue rabies  washing ton a Kristin belliard.6, says her rabies shots were like rolling on thumb tacks every Day but scientists report some reason for optimism in their Battle against the dread disease. Kristin s Story is familiar. She and her 8 year old brother Philip went to a farm in Ontario three weeks ago to ride Lucky their aunt s favorite horse. Three Days later. Lucky fell ill. Before the week was out. The animal was dead. An autopsy proved what the family had Fea Redall week rabies. No one in the family had been bitten by the horse or had any deep wounds. But physicians advised them to undergo the painful series of injections just in Case. There was a Chance the virus borne in the horse s saliva had touched someone s Eye or Mouth which could Lead to transmission of the disease the doctors theorized. Excruciating pain several Days and 14 shots later Kristin talked of excruciating pain likening the injections to lying on a bed of thumb tacks. She and her brother were administered the same rabies injections that Are Given to some 30,000 americans each year. The series is necessary because there is no cure for rabies once its symptoms appear and it is believed to be virtually always fatal. The vaccine is derived from Duck embryos in a process developed about 20 years ago but which was not used routinely throughout the world until about 1972. The Duck embryo vaccine replaced the original and More dangerous injections developed by Louis Pasteur from the brain matter of rabbits exposed to rabies. The Rabbit vaccine which also was extremely painful to administer and could cause severe reactions including paralysis or even death was responsible for the awful reputation of rabies shots. May be on verge now scientists and research. Say with varying degrees of assertiveness that they May be on the verge of an important development that could contain rabies which has been on the Rise among wildlife in the ., Canada and much of the world indecent years. Or. William Winkler. A veterinarian with the Center for disease control cd in Atlanta who has been Active in rabies research for years said he expects the government to Issue a License this year for a new vaccine derived from a virus grown in human cells. The vaccine known As interferon. Is available Only on an experimental basis but it has several advantages Over the other vaccine. It offers much greater immunity to the disease than the Duck embryo Type and does t cause Adverse re actions among people sensitive to Duck protein. It also can be administered in five weekly shots in the shoulder instead of the in present dose of 14 to 23 injections Given under the skin of the stomach lower Back at th1diro Pri Lucr to id or thigh. The cd which is part of the  Public health service in the department of health. A Deucalion and welfare has documented Only three cases of humans who caught rabies and survived. One was a boy in Ohio who contracted the disease in 1971 at the age of 7 and has italian rightist group takes bombing credit Rome api the self styled Ultra night labor armed squads claimed responsibility for lire bombing several Alfa Romeo sales outlets in Home. Padua an Turin police reported. The bombings which caused wide spread damage but no injury were carried out by the squads As a protest against an agreement reached by labor unions and to Alfa Romeo management to increase production of a new automobile Model rough extra working hours. Recovered without any aftereffects. Another was a woman in Argentina and the third was a technician working on a new animal vaccine in a new York Laboratory. The technician had been inoculated and was believed immune to the disease. One year later however he continues to suffer some weakness and speech problems is a result of brain damage. Researchers working with animals have had what they Call promising results in tests of interferon. Which they gave to Rabid animals and Are anxious to test on human victims of the disease. Don t quote me As saying we be found a cure for rabies said one of those familiar with the animal tests but who asked not to be identified publicly. We Are encouraged by the results so far. And we expect it will be tested on humans somewhere in the world within the next 12 to 24  he said. Interferon is a protein substance produced naturally by the body in response to viral invasion. But scientists thought it had Little practical value As a drug because it elderly advice what kind of advice can an elderly Galapagos Tortoise give to a email off Spring the answer could Lake a while since these tortoises can live up to 100  slow moving giants photo graphed at Miami s Crandon Park zoo came originally from the Galapagos is lands. Associated press photo million adults reported paroled on probation was extraordinarily expensive to produce in the Laboratory. Recent changes in the method of production and Success in human tests against other viral diseases have resulted in a marked increase in the research being done with the substance. Or. George Galasso of the National institutes of health Here said it would not be practical to test interferon in the  Be cause most people exposed to rabies get the shots and therefore Don t develop the disease. Field trials Are More Likely to be con ducted in a lesser developed nation where medical care is not As readily available and where More people actually contract rabies and die Galasso said. Fire damages 3-Blockarea of . City Paterson . A a fire engulfed several Mills and factories Here then spread to nearby Homes before being brought under control sunday nearly nine hours after it erupted. Authorities said arson was probable. Police estimated that the Blaze caused millions of dollars Worth of damage in a three Square Block area. Several firemen suffered minor injuries officials said. Assistant fire chief Charles Walker said there is no Way the fire could have spread so rapidly unless arson was in  acting fire chief Daniel Carroll said the Blaze which started at about 5 30 . Sat urday was declared under control about 3 40 a.m., although Small fires continued to Burn in several spots. Mayor Thomas Kramer said. There was a 30-Minutc period when the winds were gusting where it was really touch and go More than 400 firefighters from a dozen towns ought the Blaze As thousands of spectators crowded onto the tops of cars and rooftops to get a look. Besides having to contend with the crowds firemen were hampered when parts of burning buildings collapsed on two fire pumpers. Authorities said the fire was believed to have started in the met Alart corp. Build ing which they said was being used by d Amelio paper storage co. Washington i i a new comprehensive report issued by the census Bureau sunday showed More than 1 Mil lion adults and 400.000 juveniles were under the supervision of state or local pro Bation and parole agencies in 1976. Of 1.079 258 adults. 923.060 were on pro Bation in lieu of being jailed and 156.000 had been paroled before completing sentences the report said. It also said 328.854 juveniles were on probation 53.347 on parole. These and other findings resulted from the nation s first comprehensive Survey of stale and local probation and parole Agen  census Bureau published the results in a 182-Page Booklet packed with facts and  of the other findings males represented 86 percent of the adult probation Case Load and 90 percent of the adult parole cases but Only 77 percent of the juvenile cases and 80 percent of the juvenile parole Case Load. Only 72 percent of the juvenile males and 59 percent of the juvenile females were judged to be delinquent. The others had done things that Are not considered crimes when committed by adults. As of sept. 1, 1976, the state and local probation and parole agencies had 55.807 employees and the Counselor or supervisors of the probation subjects or parolees had an average Case Load of 48 persons. The census Bureau made the Survey at the request of the Law  assistance administration As a first step toward developing a National correctional statistics program it was reported. The report showed that at the time there were 680 adults under supervision per 100,000 population nationwide. In three jurisdictions the number was More than 1.000. The District of Columbia had 1.366 discs per 100.000 population. Massachusetts 1.353. California 1.113 and Maryland 1.018. Of time May 2, 1948 Gen. Dwight o. Eisen Hower bade Farewell to the  today in a simple but colourful ceremony at fort lava. The general woo coded a 39-year career in the  will become president of Columbia University. May 2, 1958 the soviet Union today vetoed president Eisenhower s Arctic inspection plan after denouncing it As a trick to help get military data la soviet territory May 2, 1968 surgeons at Stanford medical Center Hospital performed a four and a half hour heart transplant today on Joseph Rizer 40, a Salinas calif., Carpenter. It was the world s eighth human heart transplant