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Dr, Tom Cate, associate director of microbiology and medicine at lylor, said the purpose of the project is to find an effective method to combat many strains of flu. The study being done here involves the use of nosedrops contain- glive Russian flu virus, Cate said a small percentage of the vaccine is virus and that it should not cause any bad side effects. "About one out of every five get a runny nose and nasal obstruc tion, Cate said: “About one out of 20 may get muscle aches and low ade fever,” he added. Participants in the study must be between the ages of 1$ and 25, and free of any chronic ailments. Pregnant people and persons aller gic to eggs cannot participate. The cultures for the vaccine were grown in eggs, so the vaccine could cause a reaction. Also, anyone who will come in contact with „ ... „ ; years-old or over 65 within 10 days cannot tafce the vaccine. People interested in taking part in the study s* | - Friday at either the health center or the the Cm health center is open between 9 a.m. and 4:30 mons Lounge facility between 7:30 p.m. and 9;: People taking part in the study must give as _ Cate said some of the vaccines are placebos and would effect on preventing the flu. The placebos are given as a ■ Two weeks after the vaccine is given, volunteers will postcard asking if they have been sick. 'Three to five another hood sample will be taken. postcard returned and $5 for any illness evaluation or virus culture taken. ' was given the vaccine, the other a placebo. This was done to see if the vaccine could be transmitted, Cate said. There was no evidence of transmission, he said. Cake pays $100 at bank United Press International KATY — It was the best $100 check Francie Baltazar had ever eaten. Francie received a $100 check for her 17th birthday, cashed it at a bank, then she and the teller ate it. Her mother. Candy Baltazar, who owns That Ice Cream Place, made the 2-foot-long lemon ice cream cake using one of her own checks as a model. “I’ve done other unusual things for her birthday, but I guess this is probably the farthest out I’ve ever gone,” Ms. Baltazar said. “She does something weird every year,” Francie said. “I just took the cake and gave her the $100 for it,” Katy National Bank teller Dorothy Herrington said. “I thought it was a very cute idea. We do get to eat some of it.” Herrington said it will be backed up with a real check. “There’s no way we can encode a cake and run it through our machines,” she laughed. “We’d have to have something to back it up.” lu study attracts all kinds By MARY C. BECKER Special to the Battalion Flu Blues. i attractive woman in dark blue it in a hallway of the Memorial Sident Center, with a white coffee and a stack of $10 bills beside I. She asked passersby if they mted to earn $10 by taking part in i (lu study. [Some shook their heads and Iked on. The curious, the adven- pus, and the greedy stopped. I ! in the last category. I read through the handout ex- |ning the study, taking careful ; of who was responsible for this, just in case. [My eye was caught by the para ph dealing with side effects, ly included vomiting, headaches, cle aches, nasal obstruction and bharge. I didn’t have anything Jter planned for the evening. 1 panicked for a moment when I they wanted 20 cubic cen- eters of blood — my blood. I It when I get a paper cut. |y the end of the study, if I ose to stay in the program, the ip will have 60 cubic centimet- ofmy blood or about 5 1-2 table- ms. I decided I could spare that :h. wo cadets, one male, one e, filled out their forms and ed them to Marta McMurray, woman behind the table. They re finished with the immuniza- i by the time I had finished the erwork. iter I checked off that I had no jous illness, was not pregnant om would be glad to hear that ), and was not allergic to chick- or eggs, Marta handed me a ite label with a number on it. bceforth I would be known as 366 — or 66 to my friends, propping my coat and purse on floor, I was free to try for a t-minute escape break. Gary sel, the physican’s assistant, iked up the rubber strip and tied ibove my elbow. J watched the vein swell up. He deed up a test tube with a needle tached to a rubber stopper and me to relax. I practiced my p breathing and waited for the When the needle went in, the iin was not noticeable. I looked Jwn t my arm to see if he had fen put the needle in. I watched, tinated as the tube rapidly filled iwith dark red blood, and then tided to watch Gary’s plaid shirt stead. Vly older brother used to work as unior vampire at a blood bank ck home, so I know when some- e is a good needle sticker. I de led I had the best needle sticker ( the bunch. Later at another study one of the helpers left the rub- strip on a burly Corps cadet ter he began drawing blood. Gary alked by and mentioned, “You will iitice the arm is starting to go to isiao-ping wishes J.S. visit United Press International TOKYO — Chinese Vice Premier ng Hsiao-ping said Wednesday wants to visit the United States, it not while Taiwan has an em- ssy in Washington, Japan’s Kyodo ws agency reported from Peking. On Tuesday, 20,000 Chinese juths rallied in Peking’s Tienan- en Square in support of Teng and emier Hua Kuo-feng and to de- 0nd democracy arid government . ^ Maw. It was the largest; rally in the Uare ' n more than two years. An authoritative Chinese sppkes- an also told foreign visitors Tu y that harsh criticism of the late kairman Mao Tse-tung, which gan two weeks ago, is no longer ceptable. Teng, 74, an architect of China’s -) 0U g Gra^ iustrial modernization program, (Pressed his wish to visit America Yoshikatsu Takeiri, chairman of Pan’s Komei political party. It was Teng’s latest in a series of atements indicating China is grop- g toward a compromise with the nited States over Taiwan, the last maining obstacle to full Sino- Herican diplomatic relations. mgreH .. .Kim Wf , Liz Ns" Andy Pari ^ .Steve sbbie Pan 08 Rogers. ^ Pendlei; e U e ScujJ )oug Ed Cun" 1 * .Gary ^ btj ^ neutsfif ,j the ^ sleep.” He explained that the strip can be taken off after the blood starts flowing in the tube. He pulled the needle out of my arm, took the needle out of the stopper and handed the test tube to me. I was surprised to find the test tube was still warm. Gary put a cotton ball over the puncture and told me to bend my arm. One of the men in white lab coats directed me to another chair. His name, John M. Zahradnik, was chain stitched in blue on the left side of his coat with Influenza Re search Center written under his name. He told me to lean my head back as he filled up a medicine dropper with a clear liquid from a small vial. “Inhale,” he said and the eight drops slid down the back of my throat leaving a slightly sweet taste. I had to sign a sheet saying I had received my $10. Momentarily dis oriented from blood loss and snort ing nose drops, I signed the part I was supposed to print and printed my signature. Two girls were filling out the forms. The dark-haired one won dered suspiciously why they wanted participants’ home addresses when the experiment was supposedly safe. One of the doctors soothed her fears by explaining the study was federally funded and every dollar had to be accounted for. Her blond companion com mented, “I probably have the wrong color of blood,” as the rubber strip was tied around her arm. Asking students why they were “guinea pigs,” they answered, “Why not?” Money or the lack of it at the end of a semester was another deciding factor in submitting their bodies to experimenters. The “bedside manner” of the at tending physicans and helpers was relaxed and informal. The “guinea pigs” joked among themselves and with the doctors about the possible results of the experiment. One cadet said he would not be surprised to find out that he had signed away his body to science and that they were now going to bump him off with the vaccine to collect. Dr. John Quarles from the micro-biology department at Texas A&M University said this study is the largest of several university studies. But the one at Texas A&M will be the one referred to in later studies. It can be compared to the sort of commercials on television where a study compares high school students who use the fluoride toothpaste. “We are the Crest high school,” Quarles joked. “Ten years from now we ll look back and say we had fewer cavities because of the vaccine.” Some people in this University might be praying for an influenza epidemic so they can collect additional bounties. It seems rather ghoulish waiting for flu season to come around to see if the immunization will work. And what happens if it doesn’t? My first reaction to getting the shot was to head over to the legal adviser’s office to make out my last will and testament because I was sure I was the one in a million who would have a bad reaction. I have a slight headache and my back feels miserable. It could be from the vaccine, more likely it is from hacking away at the typewriter and studying. My only real pain was peeling off the Band-Aid. TRAVOLTA DISCO SALE LIGHTS FLASH IN THE SMOKEY CLEAR HEEL AND SOLE. 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