European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Aerobic workouts longer is not always better is photo of Kwh Gcorge Short rps periods during heavy aerobic exercise fro men beneficial then continuous exercise Tor improving cardiovascular fitness according to a University of Miami Hudy. Associated press eople who do aerobic exercises in Short intense bursts show a significant improvement in fitness Over people who do Long workouts according to a new study. Nonstop workouts Are the Norm in aerobic dance classes but the study at lha University of Miami human performance Laboratory indicates that Short rest periods during heavy aerobic exercise Are mom beneficial than continuous exercise for improving cardiovascular Limos. The study was conducted by or. Artelle Perry. The 12-week study of 66 Young women whose Fil Noss level was average or slightly below average showed participants in the interval aerobic exercise group improved hair maximum oxygen consumption and do ceased their percentage of body fat. Also the study indicated interval exercising delayed the Onset of pain attributed to a buildup of lactic acid in Iho Muscles. According to Perry Many women can t keep up in aerobic classes that Are typically 1q menu Les loan hour of i Lensa exorcise. What bothered me is thai the kids themselves were slopping or slowing Down on the basis of How they Felt with no controlled slopping or starting Perry said a Tor of people drop Oul in Between the study found that women who performed several minutes of vigorous dancing followed by walking or jogging tightly were Able o keep up and gel bettor results. Fatigue is one of the primary reasons people Are discouraged from exercising according Lodr Donald Michielli professor and director o the Laboratory of work physiology at Brooklyn College. The Benefit of interval training is hot one achieves a High Quality workout Michielli said physiologically it enables Tho person leading the class to get participants up to target level or maximum fitness Benefit " a local of 15 minutes of intense exercise three times a week is enough to produce 3 conditioning effect Michielli said. Each session should consist of live intervals of three minutes each where one reaches about 70 percent of his Peak heart Rale. People can tolerate that Well. It encourages people because they Don t walk away Wilb the feeling that this is Drudgery Michielli said. Currently interval training is widespread in professional and collegiate sports bul Amateur athletes do Little interval conditioning. We Don t apply in to the Amateur Tho person who us wants to get in a Little better shape Parry said. Activities classified As aerobic that is. Rhythmical and repetitive in nature so they can be sustained without breathless Tess include cycling logging swimming and walking weekend athletes who play a game of racquetball. For example Are not improving their cardiovascular fitness. Exercise experts say the Lack of proper training can to Tia cd to inexperienced and poorly qualified people providing the leadership at fitness centers and health spas. Most people lend to inflate their athletic ability Perry said increasing the chances of injury if they Aren t Laught How to scientifically improve their Lii nets. How the smallpox Battle was won associated press Wenty years ago Iho world health organization launched its worldwide Battle o eradicate smallpox. Within Only 13 years the United nations Agency and governments announced they had wiped out the ancient Scourge that had killed blinded and disfigured millions Over the centuries ii was an achievement like sending a spaceship to the Moon says or. Deneh Jesiek head of who s two member smallpox division. Who s director general Halfdan Mahler has said the organization is dedicating itself to lha fight against aids in the same spirit As Tho Light against smallpox. The worldwide mobilization against smallpox employed 200,000 people. About 2,4 billion doses of vaccine were administered against the virus. When the Campaign started in 1967, More than 10 million people Mattly in poor countries had smallpox and two million of them died. The Tail reported cat outside a Laboratory was a 23-year-old somalian. All Mao Maalin who contracted staff pox oct. 26. 1977. A. Jezek s unit says in has received at least 131 false alarms since then usually cases of chickenpox. Though routine Smas pox vaccination has stopped who still keeps enough freeze died vaccine in Switzerland to protect 300 million people. The Only danger of a smallpox return is i pm Laboratory virus stocks according to who. The last lab outbreak at Birmingham England m t9?8, killed a medical photographer and 661 Oft a nationwide scare. The number of laboratories collaborating with who and holding smallpox virus stocks Lor research and testing has been reduced irom six in 1980 to two one is in Moscow the Oiler at the . Centers Lor disease control in Atlanta a. Pharaoh Ramses a who died in 157  thought to be the earliest known smallpox victim. Outbreaks claimed 3 million lives in the 16th Century Alec Empire and prevented american soldiers from capturing Canada in 1776. A breakthrough came in 1796 when an English country doctor Edward Jenner. Discovered thai inoculations with the cowpox virus taken from infected Callie could protect against smallpox. Five years later he predicted thai the annihilation of the smallpox the most dreadful Scourge of the human species must be the final result of this practice All Mao Matlyn Iajr-wcoftfod1 smallpox victim. Tuesday August 11, 1967 his vision was slowly fulfilled. Vaccination spread through Europe in the 10th Century but Large scale production of a freeze dried vaccine thai would work in tropical areas began Only in the 1950s. In 1959, who member Stales endorsed mass vaccination campaigns reaching to percent of a country s population As she Way to Root out smallpox by the late 1960s it became Clear this was not enough in countries with poor transport links a Lack at reporting and few health services in Rural areas. Smallpox was still rampant in Brazil. Indonesia the Indian subcontinent and Aub Sana an Africa when who launched its eradication sir elegy in 1967. The no Mph Alt was on breaking the Chain of person to person transmission backed up by further mass immunization with improved vaccines. The smallpox virus must find a new Host every two to three weeks to survive. Experts found the spread of smallpox could be rapidly slopped by isolating patients and vaccinating people with whom they had Contact. Reporting networks were strengthened and health workers combed villages mixing with people at schools and markets to pick up smallpox rumours. Countries began to offer rewards the equivalent of up to 11,000 to anyone who reported 01 investigated a Case Fust Success came by 1972, when smallpox was gone from Indonesia Sou in America and most of Africa. The Indian subcontinent s combination of size and dense population presented a particular problem. But after a two year Campaign Bangladesh Lepof led the last Case in Asia in october 1975 the final Victory came