European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Thursday october 27, 1994 pet store s patrons get rabies shots Concord . A Doc tors gave rabies shots tuesday to the first of what could be hundreds of people possibly exposed to the deadly disease by pet store Kittens. About 40 people received shot sat Concord Hospital and hundreds of people who might be at risk because they played with Kittens at the St recalled the Hospital and Hitchcock clinic asking whether they should get  v that s the problem with Kittens they re adorable Public health spokesman Steve Tomajczyk said. People like to handle them that Why we re concerned because the cats had free Access to the  authorities said 32 Kittens May have been exposed to rabies at the Concord aquarium and pet store since sept. 19. One Kitten died of rabies Over the weekend alerting authorities to the threat. Another three kit tens that died this month Are believed to have been infected. Health officials were waiting for test results on 14 Kittens and searching for nine others that we resold. Five Kittens still in the store were not infected the Only Way to test an animal for rabies is to Kil it and examine its brain no cases of rabies in humans have been reported. Rabies is almost always fatal to people who Don t get shots. Contraception abstinence cited in drop of teen births by Barbara Vobejda Washington Post Washington birth rates among15 to 17-year-old girls have declined for the first time since 1986 reversing what had been a rapid increase officials say. The National Center for health Statis tics said tuesday that the rates fell by 2  Cerit in 1992 the most recent year for which statistics Are available after in creasing about 25 percent Between 1986andl991. The officials attributed the decline to better contraceptive use and a leveling off of teen sexual activity. While the proportion of Young people who Are sexually Active has continued to climb the increase has slowed since the 1980s. It remains to be seen if declining birth rates will hold up said Center demographer Stephanie Ventura but she called the1992 rate encouraging because it reverses a pattern that had been going on for a Nurmi berofyears.". -. The Agency also reported hew Dat showing that teen age abortion rates also have fallen. The statistics which Are based on birth certificates come at a time when out Oto Wedlock births and teen sexual activity have become the subject of political Atten Tion. Both parties Are competing to claim the family values Agenda and Are at tempting to use welfare Reform to discourage Young unmarried women from having children .,." v but the new data Are unlikely to diminish the sense of alarm because teen births re main High historically despite the decline. Birth rates among teens aged 15 to 17began to drop after abortion became Legal in the Early 1970s and continued to decline until 1986, when the rates were 31 births per 1,000 women in that age group. Be tween 1986 and 1991, the rates climbed steadily to 38.7, roughly the 1970 rate. But in 1992, the rates fell to 37.8 per l., women a 2 percent decline. With birth rates among 18 and 19-year-old women relatively stable the Overall tee birth rate also fell about 2 percent. That s encouraging especially if Abor Tion rates Are going Down said Susan Tew a spokeswoman for the Alan Gutmacher Institute which studies contraception an sexual activity. It has to Point to either better use of contraceptives or fewer kid shaving sex.". Tote question however remains open Are abstinence prompt Ion campaigns among Young people beginning to pay off or Are Young people getting better at using contraceptives consistently and effectively perhaps in response to aids prevention efforts. The family research Council a conservative organization in Washington argued that the new data combined with other Federal studies Point to a decline in sexual activity. It s a reflection of a growing movement toward abstinence among High schooners today said William Mattox vice president for policy at the family research Council. But Tew said the studies cited by the family research Council do not provide conclusive evidence that teens Are eschew in sex. " Public announcement incorrect information appeared in the stars and stripes on wednesday oct. 26, regarding the inter us furniture bankruptcy said. The Sale is not being held at Haus Der Wirtschaft but at the hotel intercontinental Willi Brandt str 30, Stuttgart. Thursday oct. 27,10 . 8 . Friday oct. 28,10 . 4 , saturday oct. 29,9a.m.-4 . Monday too Derany Book cd or video. Call toll free 0130-8-21176 agents Suffle Well its not a new Type of dance step or something that travel agents get up to under a full Moon. 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