European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday july 29,1986 cd to reclassify haitians As having High risk of aids Miami not with clusters of aids showing up in Florida thai do not match the pattern elsewhere in the nation the National centers for disease controls preparing to put haitians Back into a special risk  will become the first group listed at risk by heterosexual transmission officials Ai the cd s head quarters in Atlanta said. According to state and Federal health official great number of haitians have contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome from people other than those who Are considered at High risk homosexual and bisexual men intravenous drug abusers and Haemophiliacs. At the same time Federal epidemiologists have noted in recent months a Small but statistically significant Rise in cases of aids in non haitian heterosexuals infected by having sexual relations with people in High risk  classified As known heterosexual Contact with a risk group increased from i percent to about 2percent of All aids cases said or. Harold Wafle chief of the epidemiology Branch in the aids program atthe centers for disease control. Whether this trend will continue or not we simply Don t know he said. The Rise while Small in actual numbers ii believe to be important because epidemiologists Are tracking inc spread of aids out of the established High risk groups. More than 22,000 americans have been diagnose Das having aids a lethal illness that destroys the body s ability to fight disease. More than 12,000 peo ple in the untied states have died from it Hjalte also said it was not completely understood Why poor recent immigrants from Haiti appeared to be vulnerable to heterosexual transmission other than that aids has already been firmly established in  Central Africa it is primarily a disease of heterosexuals. In testing for evidence of exposure to the virus that can cause aids he said blood screen info of haitians in Florida have turned up toe antibodies at a far greater rate than in inc general population but lower than inc rate found in homosexual men. The prevalence of the antibodies in haitians is percent he said while the Rale found in blood donations screened by the american red Cross u one Hundredth to iwo hundredths of a percent. One study of homosexual men in san Francisco found 40 percent showed exposure to the aids virus although studies elsewhere have Given lower figures it s becoming very apparent that there is a great Deal of heterosexual transmission among haitians said or. John Witte aids medical program director of Florida s department of health and rehabilitative services. Haitians were listed in the cd s weekly aids re ports As a special risk group until the classification was discontinued in april 1985. It was believed at the Tim thai the designation unfairly stigmatized poor haitians already saddled with adjustment problems caused by cultural and language differences. But the cacs own investigation into the outbreak of 54 confirmed cases of ads in Belle Glade. Fla., a poor migrant Center about 40 Miles West of Palm each has caused second thoughts. The Belle Glade aids cases As Well As 16 others identified in the near by migrant communities of South Bay and Pahokee were punting in two  mostly to Central slum neigh Rhoods populated by Blacks whose living conditions Are worse than those of poor Whites they represented the highest per capita concentrations of aids in the country. Sec Ond although haitians were liberally represented among the aids cases they had been officially re moved from the High risk classification and their cases were therefore listed As no identifiable risk or. Mark l. Whiteside and or. Caroline Macleod co directors of the Institute of tropical Medicine i Miami a Small private facility specializing in tropical diseases were the first to identify the Belle Glade out break and have become the chief advocates of the the Sis that aids might Spring from environmental conditions such As poor sanitation and insect  Yuru 1dbi Vishi r1"" few Jar to Imit Mwau Miccu in it Meta us it lieu Sij  Itu Tutum a ing the a Tibo Tion International group of bicyclists ends 1,400-mile trip for peace new York a a group of bicyclists hoping and concluded sunday outside the United  promote International cooperation has ended a 1,400-mile trip through the soviet Union. Czechoslovakia Canada and the United states. We got caught up in the dream of getting together people from different ideologies who spoke different languages in a non political event where the goals Are Hearne a fid Allyson Senie. 2s. One of the cyclist. In this Case the goal we to ride the 1,400 mile safely in the name of peace to gel up the Hills fix the Tat tires and put the band aids on the  the journey nude by 11 riders from the unite states 10 each from the soviet Union and czech ado Varia and two from Canada began in Kiev on june 22 undue to an advisory issued by the state department following the chernobyl nuclear disaster the Ameri can delegation joined the tour on june 30 in Czecho  hiked an average of 40 to 50 Miles a Day through the Ukraine to Prague Czechoslovakia flew to Montreal and took to their bikes again for the trek through Vermont new Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut and into new York. In this troubled age when nuclear technology threatens our civilization As a whole it s High time for everyone o make their contribution to peace no mat Ter How Small it is said Pyotr Sladkov 28, a member of the soviet contingent. Pittsburgh area tainting isolated sales of Cracker Jack resume Pittsburgh a health officials cleared the Way for stores in Allegheny county to resume sales of Cracker Jalc after determining that contamination that sickened one Man Wai an isolated incident. The tub of Cracker Jack from which the Man ate Friday was found to contain the chief ingredient in Mothballs said Guillermo Cole county health depart ment spokesman. No contamination was found in other Iofe ounce tub Analysed by the food and drug administration or in the Cracker Jack eaten by two women who later reported flu like symptoms he said. Raymond Zaparoni 41, and his daughter Tina 11,were rushed to Pittsburgh s South Side Hospital after they ate from two Cracker Jack tubs purchased at a big Lou store in nearby Mckee rocks. Zaparoni said he fell a burning sensation on hit lips soon As he tasted the snack. He immediately or dered his daughter to spit out the food. The youngster did not become sick. Mckee rocks police chief Ronald Panyko said the Seal on one of the two containers of the Popcorn confection had been broken before Zafarani Purchase them thursday night. Cole said it was not known How much Dichl Rooben Zene had been put in the tampered package. The chem ical u not believed to be lethal he said. It appear to be an isolated incident Cole said saturday. Borden inc. Of Columbus Ohio the manufacturer of the Caramel Popcorn and Peanut snack said the product was altered after leaving the company s Chi Cago area Plant. As a precaution Pittsburgh area stores were asked Friday to remove All loft ounce tubs of Cracker Jack from their shelves. County health officials told the stores saturday that they could restock the product. Stateside lightning at army base kills guardsman injures 10 fort Campbell by. A a member of the National guard was kilted and 10 others were injured by lightning while standing under tree saturday officials said nine of the injured were treated and released and one guardsman who did Noi suffer serious injuries was admitted to the base Hospital. National guard spokesman Gordon Nichols said  was Donnic Paul Mckinney 20, of Marion tote spokesman capt. Dan Schmidt said. The Accident occurred at 6 p.m., Nichols said. The guardsmen members of the 123rd Armor in based in Marion in Western Kentucky were participating in a regular monthly training exer Cise involving about 75 to 100 company Mem Bers he Taid. Vaccine May be ineffective against flu virus variants Atlanta up a Federal health official says changes have been reported in one of the world s major flu viruses that could reduce the effectiveness of flu vaccine being manufactured for use this fall and . Karl Kappus of the National centers for disease control said sunday the changes have occurred in the Honl virus that causes russian flu and outbreaks from the changed virus were reported in Hong Kong Taiwan Singapore and  is Clear that some of the variant that have turned up in those outbreaks look significantly different antigenic ally from the a a file group russian virus of the Honl variants Kappus said. Health officials Are concerned because the flu vaccine has already been formulated and manufactured far use this tall and Winter and a change in the Honl virus could mean the vaccine will not protect against that Strain. Teen plays flawlessly no e strings attached Lenox mass. A it took some Quick shuffling of violins out a 14-year-old soloist car ried off a complicated performance without missing a note and received a standing ovation from the audience the Boston symphony and conductor Leonard  e string on i Don s Small sue violin broke in the filth movement of Bernstein complicated serenade during a weekend concert at Tanglewood the symphony s summer  Malcolm Lowe promptly passed Over his full size Stradivarius and the go Pound student played on with the violin top Large for her lingers without missing a note unlit the e string on Lowe s violin also broke. Lowe who was using associate concertmaster Max Hobart s violin came to the Rescue again and Dori finished her Solo on the third violin. It was already a memorable event before dial moment. I already had tears in my eyes from the first note she played Hobart told the Boston Globe sunday. This is a night we shall never , of Japan is attending Manhattan s Juil Liard school. Couple electrocuted in College Campus Fountain hunt1ngton, ind. Up a Young Cou ple who apparently were to be married monday were electrocuted sunday in a Fountain on  College Campus authorities said. Carol Escher 27, of fort Wayne turned towage in a Fountain when she was shocked investigators said. Russell Showen 26, of Marion either was holding her hand or reached to pull her from the water when he also was shocked officials said. A Short in the Fountain s water  cause the water to be electrified officials said. Rodger Popplewell a state trooper woo was atthe Campus for a seminar found the couple floating in the  say a marriage License found in the woman s purse was dated for monday