European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 26, 1968 the stars to stripes Page 9 drinkers of wine whiskey Triay risk cancer Fra says Wash Noton a scientists Are looking into the possibility thai drinkers of alcoholic beverages face a cancer risk from chemical present in Many win Sand whiskers a top Federal health official Sayi. However there will be no immediate drastic action such h yanking such beverages off the Market As demanded by a consumer advocacy group on monday said Frank Young commissioner of the food and drug administration we re responding at a thorough and rapid rate i Don t think we re going to do anything More than Weare now he said in response to petition by the Center for science in the Public lateral spokeswoman Tor the distilled spirit Council of the United slates said the chemical Ethyl Carba mate or urethane has been shown to be associated with cancer in raw but not in spokeswoman Janet Flynn accused the consumer group or fright mongering and said her Council has been Able to find no health risks associated with Low Levels of he chemical detected. However she also said the coun cil is working to eliminate or reduce the chemical the Center for science in the Public interest joined by the National Council on alcoholism said it has filed a formal petition urging the Fra to inform the Public of the ask and to Lake regulatory action to re Duce the Hazard of urethane in wine and whiskey. The groups noted thai he Canadian government set limits nearly a year ago on urethane Levels in wine an distilled spirit and they called on . Officials to recall immediately All alcoholic beverages in this nation that exceed the Canadian animal tests indicate hit urethane poses a significant risk to even moderate drinkers the group s executive director Michael Jacobson. Was quoted As saving until urethane contamination can be prevented wine and liquor drinkers Are playing russian Center said in news release thai tests of Bever Ages in this country have shown Nihane Levels above the Canadian limits in 13 of 81 wind nine of 20 sherries 11 of 36 bourbons and 19 of 42 brandies. However Young said it is far from dear what the significance of the chemical is in foods using fermentation processes including bread Yogurt and some Wiher alcoholic the Canadian action. Young said in a Lele phone interview . Scientists Hare been vigorously looking into the matter but have not been Able to come to grips with the problem of what level of in chemical if any might affect health. All parties agreed thai scientists do nol know exactly How or Why the chemical occurs in some products. Young added that possible health problems from drinking alcohol itself could Well be More serious than any risk from urethane. Scr Mone a suspected in deaths of 3 at nursing Home in Connecticut City Windsor Conn. A official suspect Salmonella Ballena caused the deaths of three nursing Home patient Sand is responsible for the illnesses of two others who remain hospitalized. Health officials monday said 24 Resi dents of the Mountain View health car nursing Home May have been afflicted with illness caused by the bacteria. The outbreak has tentatively been tra ced to pureed food served at the 120-bed Home on nov. 14 or nov. 15. Although the exact source of contamination has t been determined or. Lyle Petersen state epidemiologist said monday. Of the 24 Mountain View residents who fell ill three have so far tested positively for Salmonella including two of those who died last week said or. Mat thew Cartier a state epidemiologist. One person died before a culture could be taken. Canter said one of he residents still hospitalize for dehydration is doing Well and one is in poor condition Canter said. Although Salmonella bacteria which cause diarrhoea fever and vomiting Are generally not life threatening Petersen said infection with the bacteria can be dangerous for people with other medical problems. You can think of it As the flu he said if Vou or 1 get the flu we re no going to die from it whereas older peo ple who have lots of medical problems i they get Salmonella it s kind of the last although the 24 residents fell ill nov.16 and 17, the mining Home did t notify the stale department of health serv ices of the outbreak until thursday Petersen said. I would have preferred to have Bee notified earlier Petersen said. The delay did not result in additional cases Petersen said. Terry Kuzman. Regional vice president for Hill Haven corp., which owns the nursing Home was quoted by the Hart Ford courant As saying the outbreak was t reported earlier because the staff believed the illness was an Ordinary virus it was not until Laboratory test were returned that they realized Salm Onella had caused the infection Kuzman said. The Tacoma Corpora Tion operates seven nursing Homes i Connecticut and 389 nationwide. Nursing Home residents monday received meals prepared in the Kitchen where cooking procedures were monitored by state epidemiologists in an Effort to determine How the outbreak occurred Petersen said. Salmonella bacteria Are common contaminants of foods most notably eggs but they also Are found in meat Etc Bensaid. Cooking kills the organism but if food is not cooked or prepared property it can spread he said. Officials believe the outbreak stemmed from pureed food because All 24 people who fell ill had eaten Puree food and were otherwise on the same diet As other nursing Home residents he said. Nationwide there were 36 confirmed cases of Salmonella in 1985, according to figure compiled by the Federal Center for disease control in Atlanta. The most recent figures on deaths show 82 people died from Salmonella in 1983, when there were about 40,000 confirmed cases did or. Nathan Shaffer an epidemiologist with the cd. Salmonella abdominal pain diarrhoea nausea sometimes vomiting. Usually fever dehydration especially among infants can be severe time Between eating contaminated food and first symptoms 4-72 hours average 18 hours meticulous hand washing with soap and warm water use hot soapy water when doing laundry people who Havo Salmonella symptoms and who work with food or take care of patients or children should be assigned other duties until two lab tests Are negative cd card to toxin Granc Scurf to Wren Ducart dirt of Pitts Kwh. Conc ago Triune now no link found Between College exams illness Boston a College students May find a but a new study suggests that the stress of . Rituals int Likely to make them More vulnerable to infect ions. The idea has Long been accepted by Many that col Ticac Stu deals Are More Likely than usual to get sic during earn time because the stress of studying for Tete and Tating them weakens their natural immunity to disease i think there really is � connection Between stress id illness but not where students and exams . Or. Hanii of Tigel director of health it vet at Brandeis University. Faistl reviewed nearly 40,000 student visits Over Ibur Jsn for treatment of Strep Throat and urinary Trail Iafe Cairins. Student actually went to the doctor less not More Durb euros probably because they Felt icy were too Busy to get medical help. He said the notion that students Are More Likely 10be sick during tests May have Arisen because there is More talk about stress and illness at exam time. A variety of animal studies suggest out stress is far More damaging if it s inescapable. For humans us could mean that stress is Apt tomake people is if it results from some hopeless Ca Lamity. It might explain for example Why people often fall seriously in in the months after the death of a spouse but students can do something about exams Tigel Tan. They probably constitute an Swap Tbs to we to Odvina. You can get up and take a break there s a acute Otha ving some control and Era though the exam is inevitable students know that it Wal Okjoo be Over. Researchers a Webere be found that students immune Leitem appear to be App reared on exam Day. Blood test show that some of their Duce gaming blood cells Are Lew potent or numerous during exams. Faigel says this May Only be a one Day drip in their immune defences not enough to significantly increase the risk of disease Faigel found that exams did have one apparent Impact on the number of bladder infections although it was t the effect he was looking for. Before exams the health service treated an avenge of six urinary infections a week. During exams this dropped to two Bui immediately afterwards it bounced up to nine. Virtually All of the victims were women and most of them bad a condition known a honeymoon cystitis bladder infection that comes either when a woman resume sex with in established partner after a period of separation w when the begun will a new partner what we think happen is that these women Are Alink bit too Busy to hive sex during exams Faigel he presented Hia research last month at a meeting of the new England College health association
