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‘Attack’ victims get aid s By BRIAN BLALOCK City Reporter I A woman ran around screaming from the shock of what she saw. ,MA sniper attack had turned the jLceful area around Rudder Foun tain into a combat zone, leaving a dozen bloody bodies to litter the con- •crete. ® An ambulance drives up, men and women run to care for the wounded. Her assuring the victims everything would be all right, their wounds are bandaged and they are carefully car ried back to a maroon and white ambulance where they get up laughing and take off their wrap pings. It was all part of a class demonstra tion held Friday around noon by Susan Greer and Cheri Trahan, both enrolled in the emergency medical techniques class at Texas A&M Uni versity. Greer said the demonstration, which included members of the AmemberoftheTexas A&M Emergency Care Team examines a victim of a mock sniper attack during the demonstration held Friday by Rudder Fountain. 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She said she was pleased with the demonstration and thrilled with the way all those how participated were able to stabilize all the victims and have them ready for transportation in about 30 minutes. Laura Kitzmiller, director of the Emergency Care Program in the Health and Physical Education De partment here, said she was also pleased with the demonstration and said she hoped there would be more such practices in the future in order to call attention to the TAMECT and the classes available in emergency training. “If we could get more people trained in first aid, our community would be a much safer place to live, ” Kitzmiller said. She said this was the first time that the TAMECT had staged a demon stration on campus, but the team had staged demonstrations before at the fireman’s training school and at LBJ State Park. While a number of the crowd of onlookers gathered around Rudder Fountain thought the fake woulds were grotesque and real, Greer said the wounds were made with morti cian’s wax, some small chicken bones and some plastic fake wounds. She said the blood was made by mixing syrup and a red dye. She said the “victims” were all members of the TAMECT and first aid classes at Texas A&M. Judge OKs McDonald’s United Press International ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis County judge has given his approval to McDonald’s hamburgers. A lawyer for L.C. Carson, 21, had asked for a new trial by contending that McDonald’s meals served to jurors during Carson’s robbery trial last March were “unbalanced.” The attorney said the jurors were forced to hurry their deliberations so they wouldn’t have to eat another meal at McDonald’s. Judge Melvyn W. Wiesman re jected the motion and sentenced Carson to 10 years in prison for rob bing a Quick Shop food store in sub urban Velda Village. Disease may reach U.S. by mosquitos l United Press International ATLANTA — Cases of dengue fever have been confirmed in Mex ico, touching off concern among fed eral health officials that the mos quito-borne ailment may eventually reach the United States. The national Center for Disease Control said incidences of dengue fever were spotted in Tampico, a Gulf Coast city, 300 miles south of the Texas border, in mid-February. The disease was discovered during a field study conducted by the Mex ican Ministry of Health and Welfare and the CDC. Dengue fever, nicknamed “break- bone fever” because of the intense discomfort it causes among its vic tims, is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same type of mosquito that spreads yellow fever. “Because A. aegypti is widely dis tributed in Mexico, the Gulf Coast and the southeast Atlantic states of this country, dengue may spread further through Mexico and may reach the continental United States; the likelihood and timing of such THE BATTALION Page 3 MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1980 spread are unknown,” the CDC said in its Morbidity and Mortality Week ly Report. Dengue fever is characterized by a sudden onset of fever for about 5 days, intense headache, joint and muscle pains, and rash. Doctors say recovery is associated with pro longed fatigue and depression but that the disease seldom kills its vic tims. V. 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