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Monday, January 30, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 DOV J JT> -J Influenza Student Health Center receiving more than 200 flu victims daily mn 1 By PAMELA BARNES and USA PEDERSEN Reporters Have a headache? Fever? Sore throat? Aching muscles? Are you coughing, sneezing and generally lee! like you’ve been nit by a Mack Truck? Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the Student Health Center, says with these symptoms you probably have tne flu. Texas A&M’s annual in fluenza epidemic has hit rather early this year and left an estimated 200 to 250 flu victims a day visiting the health center, Goswick says. Most of the cases diagnosed last week were a new variant of the type A Russian strain of influenza, he says. Because of the fast out break it seems that this is the type of epidemic that goes sky high in just a couple of weeks and subsides just as quickly, Goswick says, if this is the case, this week (Jan. 30 to Feb. 3) may be the worst part of the epidemic. “We usually expect the flu season to start after Christmas lasting until spring break,” Goswick says. “This year it's hit fast and hard.” If you do have the symp toms mentioned, accompa nied by possible nausea and heavy congestion, Goswick re commends aspirin or an aspir in substitute for fever and dis comfort, but if aspirin doesn’t help, the health center can give something more potent. In addition, he recom mends plenty of fluids and rest. *Tt“s necessary to drink lots of liquids to prevent dehydra tion, Goswick says. “The best things to do are get lots of rest, (an<f) don’t go to class, if pos sible.” The good news is that the illness usually lasts only 24-4B hours, depending on the indi vidual case, Goswick says. “The students that fight this thing will have symptoms for a longer period of time,” he says. Reasonable treatment and an early diagnosis speed re covery and keep complica tions, like pneumonia, to a minimum, Goswick says. “We haven’t seen many complications yet, but it is still an early stage for an epide mic," Goswick says. However, there is no definite treatment. “You just have to let it run its course till it goes away.” The bad news is prevention is difficult, Goswick says, but being in good physical condi tion, eating right, and getting enough rest help to avoid get ting me flu. In addition, Goswick re commends staying far away from those who are sick. The virus is easily transmitted through the air by sneezing or coughing. If your roommate or close friend has the flu and is un avoidable, Goswick says, take precautions like wiping the phone before use and staying on your side of the room. The health center has ab out 40 hospital beds for those flu victims that are running high temperatures and feel too sick to be at home. At the beginning of the week all beds were full but as patients recov er and are released more beds are available, Goswick says. Goswick attributes the rapid epidemic to the low tol erance of the new variant of the virus. “No one has been exposed to it yet and the toler ance is low,” Goswick says. VELOQ Hark “ions. T*i [he conic ite leg a 1 to be a spring nd facit- White!: lation, :dufe a the ci United Press International WASHINGTON — Mem- ers of Congress from the re- aion will turn their attention to jthe budget this week with the arrival of President Reagan’s proposed spending plan for the pscal year beginning Nov. 1. Reagan's budget is expected to seek $924 billion, including a ■13 percent hike in real defense spending. In past years, members of JCongress got a look at the ^budget a few days in advance, usually over a weekend. This I'ear however, the administra- own ' :ion wants to wail to brief mem- t early# until a day or two before re reprt& Wednesday’s official release of soonai^the fiscal 1985 spending bluep- get or rint. mr tie*'! , DM And tucked into the massive 0 \ budget volumes will be plenty of L be in p ro j ec t s of interest to the region, many of them the so-called ^ “pork barrel” items that mem- bers of Congress work so hard to Bprotect from budget cuts. Among the categories sure to be of interest to the region will be the Army Corps of Engineers proposals. Department of In terior spending that includes dams, forests and park acquisi tions and military contruction funding. Reagan also has told Congress he is proposing accelerated work on hazardous waste cleanup — an important topic to the entire region — and will seek $50 million more this fiscal year for the Superfund program and ask for $640 million for the next Fiscal year. The Senate this week plans to continue consideration of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act while the House is expected to debate — and possibly vote on — the Agent Orange and Ato- mic Veterans Relief Act and a resolution to establish state com missions on teacher excellence. Although this will be only the second week of congressional activities in 1984, congressional committees and subcommittees have numerous hearings sche duled to deal with subjects left over from the first half of the 98th Congress. After Wednes day, however, they will start turning their attention to the sections of Reagan’s budget under their jurisdiction. Among the hearings of in terest to the region is a daylong session scheduled Thursday by the House Agriculture Subcom mittee on Conservation, Credit and Rural Development, which will look at how the Farmers Home Administration has been administering economic emergency and disaster loan programs. Also this week, former Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-Texas, will be in Washington to give the keynote speech at a National Prayer Breakfast. 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Druze Moslem leader Walid Jumblatt and Palestine Libera tion Organization rebels, who drove PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and his fighters from Lebanon, met in Libya with Abdul Salaam Jalloud, leader Moammar Khadafy’s top aide, state Beirut radion said. Libya supplies arms to the Sy rian-backed Lebanese opposi tion. As sporadic fighting sounded throughout the capital Sunday, two Lebanese soldiers were wounded by Shiite Moslem mili tiamen who opened fire on their patrol on the road leading to Beirut airport, state-run Beirut radio said. Other army troops ex changed mortar and rocket fire with Druze Moslem militiamen near the villages of Souk el Gharb and Aramoun in the Druze-held Shouf mountains overlooking the capital. After nightfall, mortar and artillery shells fell along the length of the mountain ridge be tween the two forces, Beirut radio said. i Rumsfeld returned to Beirut after a day of talks in Amman with Jordan’s King Hussein, and Beirut radio said he postponed a shuttle to Damascus scheduled for Sunday. “There is nothing dramatic, but the talks are continuing,” said a U.S. source. “The United States continues to be interested in the security plan.” The security plan for Beirut and a region south of the capital calls for a disengagement of warring Moslem and Christian militias, and deployment of Lebanese army troops into some power vacuums. It could allow for at least a partial withdrawal of the 1,200 U.S. marines at Beirut airport. U.S. officials would not give details of Rumsfeld’s latest talks, but Lebanese officials said the envoy met no government fi gures in Beirut Sunday and was waiting to travel to Syria, poss ibly by way of Egypt. Student reportedly raped by two men Spending plan discussed By Sarah Oates Staff writer A Texas A&M University stu dent reported early Friday morning that she was raped af ter being abducted by two men who identified themselves as football recruits outside a frater nity house. Bob Wiatt, director of secur ity and traffic for the University Police, said that “there were no football recruits at all at Texas A&M (Thursday) night,” and that he does not believe the men were football recruits. The woman told police she was at a party at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house in the 300 block of Bittle Lane in Bryan and walked outside to look for a friend around 1 a.m.. She told police that two men in a car called her name and thinking she knew them, she went to the car. She said the driv er showed her a gun and said, “Get in the car right now.” She said the men offered to take her to her dormitory, but instead drove out to the country where they sexually assaulted her. They then drove her home. According to the Bryan police incident report, she reported the assault around 3 a.m. The case may be related to an incident the previous night on the University campus. The Texas A&M police department Wednesday night received a re port that a woman was harrassed by two men in a car near Rudder Tower. She fled from them. The car described by the assault victim Friday morning is similar to the one described in the Wednesday night incident. The Texas A&M and Bryan police forces are working together on the case. Wiatt said the Texas A&M police have a few leads. UNDERGROUND DELI AND STORE THE DIET PLACE OPEN BREAKFAST LUNCH 7:30am - 10:30am 10:30am - 3:30pm Mon— Friday QUALITY FIRST” Boss Bird Picks a Winner! _ ... .JflHMI Feathers flew as Boss Bird winged his way through thousands of entry blanks for Tinsley's free trip-for- two to Hawaii. And on January 16th, Boss Bird pluck ed our winner from the pile ... Mr. James Holland of Tomball, Texas. 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