European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Maraday d�mbw4. 1988 the stars and stripes penicillin resistant gonorrhoea cases Rise Atlanta up a Federal health official said tuesday that reported Case of penicillin resistant gonorrhoea have doubled in the last year and have be come a very serious health problem inthe United states. Health experts from across the United stale began a two Day meeting tuesday at the National centers for disease control to develop a list of recommendations for handling gonorrhoea resistant to traditional penicillin treatment. It indeed has become a very serious health problem in the United states and we re trying to come up with some recommendations to handle it said Peter Crippin senior health adviser Ai the cd whose division of sexually trans melted diseases is sponsoring the Dis Cussion. There has been a very significant in crease Over the last few years in Gonor Rhea cases resistant to penicillin antibiotics said Alula Hodge of the cacs office of statistics. In 1983, 3,802 cases of penicillin resistant gonorrhoea were reported to the cd. That figure climbed to 4.406 in1984 and then More than doubled to 8,914 in 1985. For the first six months of 1986 behave 6,098 cases reported Hadgu said. It looks like we re heading for a figure of about 12,000 cases this  Crippen said cases of gonorrhoea Resis Tant to penicillin can be fought with other More expensive drugs but the present budgetary problems for health  you buy penicillin in bulk where a single injection would Cost $ 1. We have drugs that can handle the gonorrhoea that has developed a resistance to penicillin but they would Cost something like j7 to 18 per injection and that can wreck health budget Crippen said. We be got to determine at what level do you jump in with the More expensive drugs be  said the major problem spots of penicillin resistant gonorrhoea Are inner York City Southern Florida and year facial lot  be also had some outbreaks thu a in new Orleans and in Hott Tion staid. He said the wont situation to  in the South Toneta coun ties of Dade Broward and pita  some South Florida area 30 per cent of the casts of gonorrhoea report dare pen Dillin Tisha it. And Shafi Tremley High he said. In new Yor City about 5 percent of the reported cases of gonorrhoea Are Peni Clun fun tank. In new Orleans probably no More than 1 percent of the gonorrhoea Case Are penicillin resistant but that s still a lot he said. Radon Gas 2nd of lung cancer in los Angeles a radon Gas in 1 . Homes exposes occupants to higher radiation doses than uranium miners get says a study indicating that the substance May cause More lung cancer deaths than anything but  average american suffers a risk of lung cancer from exposure to radon that while smaller than the risk of smoking is much larger than the health risk from other environmental pollutants including smog and toxic waste nuclear physicist Anthony v. Nero said. The study published in the journal science is the first to calculate the average amount of radon that leaks into . Homes from uranium and Radium in underlying soil. Nero did the research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for the . Department of  agree with Nero that it radon is probably the second leading cause of lung cancer in this country,. Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Chris Rice said in , because Only 1,377 Homes were surveyed for the study no one can say for sure whether radon or Asbestos once common in building insulation ranks second said Rice and Lawrence Garkinkel the Ameri can cancer society s vice president of epidemiology. Nero s study suggest that radon causes about 10,000u s. Lung cancer deals annually Well within the previous Epa estimate  to 20,000deaths per  said lung cancer will fall some 130,100 americans this year win about 108.000 of the death caused by cigarettes and perhaps 9,000 by Asbestos expo the study projected that about 1 million . Home shave radon Levels exceeding 8 Pic Cunes per liter of air More than the dose received by the average uranium Miner. That boosts the occupants lifetime ask of lung cancer death by 2 percent Nero said in a Tele phone interview from Berkeley. A Nerson who smokes a pack of cigarettes a  lifetime risk of Lun cancer death by about 8 percent Nero and Garfinke said. I _ j .