European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 15. 1991 the stars and stripes Page 9medical team sent to assist african nation b3 the stars and stripes sixth seven personnel from the . Air Force Airn v and Navy have deployed to Midwest Africa to fwd Tram local medical and military personnel on mass casual re care. A _ thl state department is sponsoring the trip to a Judea Bissau a tee 5if-person air Force contingent consists of per sonnet from the Sembach a clinic six Tram one Ramstein a clinic six from . Air a orces m Europe Headquarters two from the air  Hospital in Wiesbaden one from Pitburg Al. One assigned to the . European come a in Germany and two from Raf Lakenheath Reg and. A to group includes doctors nurses medical Kern Nicias other patient care providers Media. Team Ness and preventative medical professional.-., said Capi. And Worley a Safe spokes a"tt1 six person Nav a team is assigned to the los. Nap environmental and preventive medi Al unit no. 7 based in Naples. Italy. Three members of the Navy group Are trained .3u. Microbiology. Entomology and preventive medicine., said Jet. Jack Papp. A Navy spokesman me remaining three include a laboratory7 technician Ana two preventive medical technicians. During Herr stay the Navy team will evaluate j sources and a net Quality food sources and preparation Field sanitary requirements and disease control. Papp said. Thev also will assess diseases native to the area. The army sent ii medical dental and logistics deem in. -i2dd welcomed at Pitburg follow my persian Gulf duty Pitburg a. Germany a two Hundred members c in. Att inc fighter Wing returned to Pitburg a o. Desaav from saudi Arabia after a Stav of nearly no Emolins. Lie grou it represented about one third of the Wing member Gnu sep toyed to the persian Gulf said sufi Nen a a base spokesman. The airmen were Gie Eil by a Parade base supervisors and commanders Neilor. The were reunited with friends and families to Inird of those who deployed remain in Tauc Rani. Cark said. L a. A great Day to see our Pitburg a warriors lao. Ana a. Owe the great Deal of  said. Ion Jud. 3oth Lac fighter Wing  bomb blast kills 9 eve Gnu  apr nine policemen and ,. Monday while trying a it deactivate a bomb a rein use Nicias left after attacking a Small North Iov. A a u army said. Cev discovered near san Pablo where re a c an. Eminent troops battled last week. A earn. Loree.-. Drought the bomb to their Post and tiie. I. X  it when it exploded according to a Lemer Iron me army fifth brigade. Quot army offers free aids tests to kids treated by dentist by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau a Washington army officials Are offering free aids testing and counselling to More than1,000 former child patients of a dentist at fort Bragg n.c., who recently tested positive for the virus that causes the disease. A team of experts is reviewing records of children Reav u y the dentist Between aug. 1, 1988, and april 30 of this year at clinic no. 5 on Gruber Road also known As the smoke bomb Hill clinic said set. 1st class skip Richey a fort Bragg spokesman. Post officials have sent certified letters to parents whose children were treated at the clinic during that want act Upu 3 toll free Telephone number 1-800-97-9901, for those seeking More information Richey said. The number is staffed monday through Friday from 8 . To 5 . Overseas service members who can to reach toll free numbers should Contact the preventive Medicine Section of their nearest medical facility. A worldwide message sent May 8 contains information on what parents should do. Army officials say there is no cause for alarm. A you is reassured a a there is very Little Chance your child could have been infected a col. Donald Vic commander of the fort Bragg dental activity wrote in the letter to parents. For the past four years military health care providers have been instructed to follow guidelines developed by the National centers for disease control in Atlanta to prevent the spread of the aids virus i it guidelines Ciu Kjor dentists to routinely Wear protective masks gloves and gowns said Virginia Stopha Nakis a spokeswoman Fly the army surgeon general. Jt10 task. This Case is infinitesimal a she said. 1  were absolutely scrupulous in their procedures at this clinic a they used rubber gloves All equipment was sterilized every precaution was  the dentist whose name has not been made Public was Given a routine test last month for the human irn Mun deficiency virus or his that causes aids and was barred from treating patients when the test came Back positive two weeks later she said. A the dentist is now undergoing further tests at Walter Reed army medical Center in Washington ,bou8h by is carrying the virus known to cause aids he has not yet developed symptoms of the disease. The team conducting the records review at the clinic is made up of experts on the aids virus dentistry epidemiology and patient psychosocial support Richey said. ,. A a. A a r j lacking and testing the dentists former patients will take months. But All will be offered free counselling and testing even those whose sponsors May no longer be in the military he said. Soldiers arc tested for the aids virus every two years and before being reassigned to overseas locations of a a began routine testing in 1986, More than 1,8 k soldiers have turned up positive for his. With aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome the virus Breaks Down the body a immune system leaving it open to a variety of potentially fatal this eases. Young vietnamese refugees stand at a Hong Kong detention Center tuesday after passing government screening for resettlement to other countries. Some 53,000 vietnamese refugees in the British Colony Are in waiting to begin new lives limbo waiting for resettlement overseas or facing repatriation Back to Vietnam and Hong Kong optic ills Are bracing Tor the arrival of another wave of vietnamese fleeing their communist country. Tylenol tampering suit ends with settlement r i. W. I i. I a the  r nor input. ,. A a w Hue  we unnerve Tabic. Inc. Eur cd inn it an Undis. Lawsuit filed in. A. E dead vhf to died Aizic a capsule a it 1 82. In. It. A in ounce Nio if Quot need. Her. A a  Tenien Wen nor a a a Quot her it a Ujj to tit me Xianu Reziea. N Aanen an Tea Arr. Revei. I Kreren one me. A.  product or prevented it we wanted to do something for the families and finally get this tragic event behind us a said Bob Kniffi spokesman for Johnson a Johnson Parent of the drug s manufacturer. Mcneil consumer products inc. Bruce plan the lawyer who represented two families said the Case showed Quot manufacturers 01 the world that the have to keep tampering incidents in mine and u shows that it poses a Legal risk to them it they Don t foresee these  the victims la mimics were not present when circuit judge Warren Johson announced the settlement. The lawsuit filed in 1983, sought unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. A it claimed Mcneil should have known the capsules could be tainted and should have protected Consumers. A key Issue was that Mcneil was Selling other products in tamper proof packaging when the poisonings occurred. A 1 he victims All from the Chicago area died Between sept.-29 and oct. 1, 1982, after taking tylenol that had been tainted with cyanide and returned to store shelves. No one was charged in the deaths although James w. Lew is was convicted in 1984 of trying to extort $1 million from Johnson amp Johnson a to Stop the  i be is serv ing 20 years in prison. State police said he remains the prime suspect in the deaths. The poisonings prompted a National review of the safety of consumer goods and transformed the packaging of Over the counter drugs. I in the Days after the deaths Johnson amp Johnson of new Brunswick , recalled 22 million bottles of tylenol capsules