European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes sunday april 28, 1991 cholera epidemic continues to rage Lima Peru apr a cholera epidemic that has killed 1,500 people is spreading through South Macri Ca and doctors say it is Likely to take tens of thousands More lives. A. A a a a a. A  polluted Ocean Waters and infected travellers have carried the disease along the Pacific coast from Colombia to Chile. It has spread into the heart of Brazil the largest and most populous nation in latin America from infected people travelling on the Amazon River which Springs from the mountains of Peru. V a this is. The world s worst cholera epidemic in this Century a said or. Ilor Acio Lores an epidemiologist with the pan american health organization. Quot it is very difficult to imagine it ending  Hiroshi Nakajima director of the world health organization has said cholera threatens 120 million latin americans a Quarter of the Region s people who live in unhygienic conditions and that stopping the epidemic could Cost $50 billion. The pan american Lealih organization estimates the epidemic will affect at least 6 million people and kill42,000. A a a a v. Or. David Swerdlow of the enteric diseases Branch at the . Centers for disease control in Atlanta said the fact that this is the South America s first cholera epidemic in 100 years causes additional worry a after cholera hits an area that Hasni to had it in a Century you have a High attack rate a he said. A these people Are riot immune. And after that two things can happen it can go away or it can become  cholera appeared in january in Peru a Northern ports. It spread through poor andean towns to the Highland Jungle along the upper Amazon Basin killing at least 1,250 people and infecting 3 percent of the nations 22 million people. Neighbouring countries restricted Cross Border travel and barred most peruvian products but the disease reached coastal Ecuador by Early March. It spread rapidly in swampy shantytowns around Guayaquil Ecuador a largest City. By april the first deaths had been reported in Chile and in the towns of coastal Colombia. Epidemiologists say controlling the spread of cholera in South America is nearly impossible in part because infected people move easily across the largely in patrolled Borders. Longest life expectancy rates found in japanese women Survey say where life is Long countries with the longest life expectancies in years. Geneva apr Japan a women live longest hungarians have the highest suicide rate and More people living in industrialized nations die from smoking than from any form of violence says a new Survey by the world health organization. The figures Are among thousands packed into who s 423-Page statistical yearbook which includes a comprehensive mortality Survey based on reports from 55 countries mostly in the Macri Cas and Europe. The new edition released this month covers data through 1989. A a deaths linked to smoking total 1.8 Mil lion each year in the industrialized countries alone the ,.agency estimates. The 800,000 smoking related deaths among people Ages 15-64 included in that Fig lire exceeds a the combined total of All deaths due to any form of violence be it Accident homicide or suicide a the . Death rate from cancer was 194,9 per 100,000 people compared with 245,3 in Czechoslovakia and 107.8 in  a. R ,./.�������. A i the female breast cancer rate was 41,8 in Britain 32.0 in the United states 22.0 in Spain and Only 8.5 in Japan. Heart disease claimed  rela five toll Iii the soviet Union. The rate of 360.3 was almost twice that of the United states 188.1, four times that of Austria and seven times higher than in sri Lanka. In Japan women s life expectancy at birth is 82.5 years a six years More than for men. That compares with 78.6 years  and 71.6 years for men in the United states the 76,2 rate for japanese men is the highest for men. In Sao Tome and Principe one of the worlds least developed countries the Likely life spans arc 63,1 for women and 60.7 years for men. In Europe France and Switzerland seem to have the longest living women with life expectancies of 81.5 and 81.3 years respectively. Among men greeks top the list with 74.3 years followed by swedes 74.2. Hungary leads the suicide statistics with an average of 40 per 100,000, followed by sri Lanka 38.7, Finland 27.5, and the former East Germany 23.9 in 1989. It was the first and last year that East Germany supplied suicide figures before unification with West Germany which reported a rate of 14.5. Venezuela recorded the highest death rate for Road accidents 31.1 per 100,000 people. Portugal had 26.3, new zealand 22.8. The United states rate 18.7, was slightly above the soviet Union s 18.3. Norway with a rate of 8,0, Sweden 8.4, and Britain 8.6, had the lowest rates. Cirrhosis and other liver diseases often attributed to regular High alcohol consumption were listed As causing 50.4 deaths per 100,000 people in Hungary 32.6 in Chile and 26.2 in Austria. Among other wine growing countries the rates were 24.9 for Italy 21.4. For Spain and 19.6 for France. The rate was 11.7 in the United states and a Mere 3.6 in Ireland. It was a Low 1.1 in Iceland in 1989, the year parliament voted to lift a 74-year-old ban on Selling Beer with an alcohol Content above 2.25 percent. The soviet Union which has been trying to curb alcoholism continued to report no figures for that category malaria is thought to kill Between 1 and 2 million people each year in the third world where More than 2 billion remain  varying degrees of malaria risk in Africa three out of four malaria deaths occur in children below the age of 5 to Japan France 81.3 i Switz. 81.3 . View Neth. 80.5 Sweden 80.4 me United states 78.6 Rev. A z is View he cd Japan 76.2   i Ovivia Lviv Quot. A 1 i a it Greece 74.3 Sweden 74.2 Switz. 74.1 v. % Malta 73.8 United states 71.6 British medical journal questions resurrection London a an article published saturday in a British medical journal challenges one of the fundamental tenets of christianity a that Jesus Christ died on the Cross and was Quot resurrected. The article in the journal of the Riyal College of physicians says those who do not accept the biblical account must consider the possibility that Jesus faked his death in a premeditated bid to survive crucifixion. It said he May have undergone Syncope a loss of consciousness caused by a temporary deficiency of blood Supply to the brain a and is More Likely to have been resuscitated than  who do not accept the account of the crucifixion in the gospels the article said must consider a whether the whole episode was planned by Jesus and his followers possibly at the Garden of Gethsemane where the Bible says Judas betrayed Jesu that death would be feigned so that Early removal from the Cross might be  the report was authored by or. Trevor Lloyd Davies a retired physician and former chief medical adviser to Britain a department of employment and his theologian wife Margaret. The Davies article suggests that the flogging Jesus received before crucifixion led to his Early collapse on the Cross and that appearing dead he was taken Down much sooner than usual. St Luke a gospel in the Bible says a and it was about the sixth hour and there was a darkness Over All the Earth until the ninth hour. And the Sun was darkened and the veil of the Temple was rent in the midst. A and when Jesus had cried out in a loud voice he said. Father into thy hands i commend my spirit and having said thus he gave up the  death front crucifixion usually took from three to four Days. A this Ashen skin and immobility were mistaken for death the cry May not have been any More than a loud expiration preceding  a oxygen Supply to the brain remained minimal but above a critical level until the circulation was restored when he wry As taken Down from the Cross and Laid on the ground. As Jesus showed signs of life he was not placed in a Tomb but taken away and tended Quot the Davies article contends. Laria Cains occur in children below the source world health Apt. Dean Capia age of 5. A a a a. A organization a a ,. A a a dioxin Laden paving found in German playgrounds Berlin apr hundreds of play were As much As 700 times the limit set b it Riv k a n it cd Tiik 11 41 4v,4 be Ninet. _ a. I. _ f i k t v i. T m. F. P. Berlin apr hundreds of playgrounds sports Fields and schoolyards in Germany Are covered with red paving that contains carcinogenic dioxin authorities said Friday the environmental minister for North Rhine Westphalia state Klaus Matt hic sen said in Dusseldorf that the contamination originated As slag from a Copper refinery. It was turned into red gravel and distributed widely for use in paving material. The dioxin Content of the slag Heap in the town of Mars erg was discovered a w Eek ago. Using a list of customers up to 1963, authorities believe the material was used in 220 cities and towns Matthiesen said. A a. A a a a. The deliveries continued to 1968, he said so the list of affected places was expected to grow. The first tests showed Levels of dioxin were As much As 700 times the limit set by the Federal health ministry for sports grounds said the Union for Protection of the environment and nature. The private environmental group said All locations should be tested and those with excessive Levels of dioxin a potent Carcinogen should be closed immediately. Matthiesen appealed to the Federal government to consider what action to take on the new discovery at a meeting next week of Federal and state officials on environmental hazards. So far authorities believe the Materia was used in 225 sports Fields in 51 Parks or cemeteries in 19 playgrounds and 10 schoolyards Matthiesen said. Practically All big German cities were on the list which included Berlin Bonn Bremen Cologne Frankfurt Hamburg Hannover Kiel Mainz Munich and Stuttgart. South Africa tries to ban May Penthouse Johannesburg South Africa apr the government banned the May edition of Penthouse Magazine As a lust provoking a and later lifted the order so the Magazine s management could Appeal publisher Ralph Boffard says. A a we a be publishing a modified ver Sion of the holy Bible if we follows what they wanted a Bof farce said. The edition is the third since pent House began publication in South afric earlier this year. The Magazine is a watered Down version of the american Magazine with a elicit nude or Sexaur photographs