European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stars and stripes january 1981 Nof of epidemic stage in Germany infectious hepatitis Rise stirs Alert by de Reavis staff writer Germany an increasing number of Type hepatitis cases Here has alerted military and civilian according to German health authorities some 60 cases of hepatitis Type have been registered in the City since we arc far from having an As the German press a spokesman for the health department there has been a slight increase in the number of hepatitis cases in the Wiesbaden and Mainz the spokesman and i believe there Are 20 cases in which usually has around 10 cases this time of the spokesman confirmed that a salesperson in a downtown Butcher shop was found to be a Carrier of the but said that All tests run in the local Bur Ger King and Mcdonalds hamburger shops were its True a Large number of the Young germans who have been stricken with hepatitis had eaten at one of these establish but the virus cannot be conveyed by dead it can be transmitted at but All tests of persons and an inspection of the sanitation of the premises gave no grounds to close any Carrier can pass it with a hand shake or by it cannot be ruled out that it want transmitted in either of these but it cannot be proved that the on the military Side there have been about eight cases of the disease according to Frederick commander of the air Force Hospital Plugge weve noticed an increase of hepatitis Type cases since late Decem the common thread among the cases leads to meals at Mcdonalds and the Bur Ger King we do not have a full preventive Medicine shop Here and cannot investigate Likely sources of we do pass information on to the Ger Man authorities that these places were suspect and they were i dont know what Steps they Are taking but we informed All the commanders in the area to warn their because americans Are Likely to visit these Plugge a spokesman for the 97th general hos Pital in Frankfurt said there had been no increase of hepatitis cases at their facility since a spokesman for the City of which was said to have an increase in Pati said he could neither confirm nor deny an increase in that Type or infectious hepatitis is a virus that attacks the causing the afflicted person to feel sick All and loss of appetite Are often the first nausea and general and stomach pains May jaundice yellowing of the skin and eyeballs occurs after a few Days and lasts anywhere from several Days to several infectious hepatitis is the result of a virus which has worked its Way into a per sons it May exist in the blood before any symptoms of hepatitis Are noticed and for some time after the afflicted person infectious hepatitis is transmitted by consumption of contaminated food or polluted exposure to infected waste or prolonged Contact with a per son already having the transmittal of infectious hepatitis is difficult to control because people who Are infected can pass on the virus before they Are aware they themselves have no vac Cine has yet proved the vast majority of infectious hepatitis patients recover there is no specific treatment As yet for those who get doctors generally advise infectious hepatitis patients to eat a sensible and avoid consumption of alcoholic Bever Ages for several weeks or months after the acute phase of hepatitis has miss Black world show starts tour Germany the miss Black world Uso show started a five week tour of military bases in Ger Belgium and Iceland Here thursday with the first performance at the radio City recreation Center at Carl Schurz the shows consist of miss Black world Michelle of Alaska and state Beauty Queens Denise of san Francisco Jocelyn of and Carlene Lindsay of the show coincides with Black history month and the uses 40th anniversary birthday next their second performance will be at Clay Cavern rec Center at 7 in the four Beauty Queens Are scheduled to visit with 2nd army div Forward 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26 50 22 53 18 City 45 vegas 35 Rock 52 Angeles 28 33 57 Beach 5 27 47 Orleans 32 32 City 18 30 25 26 Maine 30 31 40 31 24 louts 50 Petersburg 39 Lake City 56 Diego 51 Francisco 73 Juan 35 23 41 38 22 news update Tim operator blamed prisoners file suit Washington a the nuclear regulatory commission has charged that the operator of the three mile Island nuclear Plant failed to immediately evaluate and report important data when the 1979 Accident occurred at the metropolitan Edison was cited for infractions of its Federal nuclear License in a letter from the arcs office of inspection and the citation follows an arc investigation of information Transfer on March the Day of the the company has already been fined the statutory maximum for other violations connected with the Acci Dent and will not be assessed an arc spokesman a citation becomes part of a nuclear operators record and May be used in part to deny existing or future officials said Plant personnel knew of malfunctioning valves in the Plant Early in the but supervisors either ignored or failed to interpret the info Al Texas a three Pris survivors of the bloody new mex Ico prison riot in which 33 inmates died last have filed a million lawsuit against past and present new Mexico corrections department the suit was filed in Federal court Here by lawyers for inmates Albert is Leroy Byrd and Raymond Hernan the now being held at the la tuna Federal correctional institution near Al Are claiming damages on grounds they were not properly protected by officials at the new Mexico prison near Santa their suit also seeks a restraining or Der to keep them from being returned to the new Mexico where the three say they witnessed some of the killings during the 23 flood death toll up Cape South Africa up police thursday raised the death toll from the Laingsburg flood and said Hope of finding survivors among the missing was rapidly they placed the known dead at 15 and said another 105 people were still missing from the Flash flood that wiped out the town Early the announcement of the toll came As troops and other Rescue workers continued to scrape away the mud coating the once prosperous farming Community 170 Miles North of Cape officials said most of the survivors have found shelter with relatives and friends since the but that about 100 people were still being housed in an emergency tent in addition to a Promise of massive governmental disaster More than has been donated by Compa Nies and individuals to help rebuild the formula code okd Geneva up the world health organization who thursday approved an International code on marketing of breast milk substitutes but stopped Short of making it its executive Board unanimously endorsed a fourth draft of the code and recommended its adoption by the world health Assembly in May As a voluntary guideline for but the Board dashed Hopes of inter National activists who wanted the code to be legally claiming a simple recommendation would be insufficient to curb the aggressive promotion tactics of infant formula earlier this week the International baby food action network a coalition of consumer and other Public interest groups accused Industry representatives of trying to sabotage the who code by putting sure on governments to reject sunken ship dispute Indonesia up controversy flared thursday Over a newspaper report that the Captain of the Tarn Wornas missing along with at least 200 of its had warned officials that the ship which went Down in the Java sea was being officials thursday put the known death toll in the tuesday sinking of the vessel at with 622 con firmed and Between 200 and 400 passengers still there was no explanation for the Roll Back from an earlier survival count of and officials refused to Issue new casualty some of the confusion was caused by the Lack of firm figures on the ships at last estimate said to num Ber