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United Press International
DALLAS — A government
study has found that armadillo-
borne leprosy — an infectious
human disorder — is generally
concentrated along a 100-mile
wide coastal strip of Texas, the
state with the nation’s highest
leprosy rate.
“Our studies indicate the lep
rosy risk grows the closer you
get to the (Texas) coast and the
farther you move south,” said
Dr. Keith Clark, director of the
state’s zoonosis control division.
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Zoonosis is the study of ani
mal diseases transmissible to
man.
“If, however, you live more
than 100 miles from the coast.
the chance of encountering an
infected armadillo are less than
2 percent. Down along the
coast, the chances are more like
5 to 12 percent.”
The Findings, which include
summaries of five independent
studies, were to be released
Thursday at the annual “Dis
eases In Nature” conference.
The conference is a spinoff of a
World War II committee ap
pointed to protect the nation
against Nazi biological weapons.
An advance review by UPI of
the three-year surveillance re
port indicates the danger of lep
rosy increases with direct con
tact with animal tissue.
“We know of at least one case
in which a man, who dressed
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out armadillo meat for sausage,
contracted leprosy,” said Clark.
“There have been other cases,
but we haven’t confirmed them.
“Frankly, nobody knows for
sure the cause and effect order
of leprosy — whether armadil
los give it to humans or humans
give it to armadillos.
“One thing for certain,” he
said, “there is no longer any
reason to believe that armadilli)
leprosy is any different from
the human disease.”
Clark’s study summarized pi
oneering work by Dr. Jerome
Smith at the University of
Texas-Galveston, published last
year, which reported 2 1 of 450
armadillo samples — roughly 5
percent — in Texas coastal re
gions were infected.
“The percentage increased to
12 percent in the Brownsville-
Harlingen area,” Clark said,
where many human leprosy
cases are concentrated.
More than 340 samples, ana
lyzed in the report, were gath
ered by the zoonosis division,
Atlanta’s Centers for Disease
Control, the Gulf South Re
search Institute and an inde
pendent team from Abilene
Christian College, he said.
The Findings generally con
firmed that most infected
were concentrated in coastal
portions of the state, away from
the interior.
“These rates reflect the in-
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stance within a particular pa
illation,” he said, “and notrj
essarily the rate in an eniii
county or region.”
Leprosy is a chronic
lions disease caused by bacttii
that attacks the skin,
nerves. It is characterizedl |t e d, and t
skin ulcers and limb deforni l ns will be
ties. | ce nturies
Texas has more indigemjM^journal
cases than any other state. Mp our con
“That’s in addition to iM es uons at
cases brought in with the mOlybefore 2
of Asians and different intiX,.profit V
grants,’’ Clark said. "ThemiiM 0 fpiusbui
ases runs arouU'f| )e journ
l^‘i year. M, format
I here is more leproissconfer*
around than most of us ininByJitholas
he said. purity coi
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Inmate begins hunger strike;
officials monitoring conditionl
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United Press International
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Prison
officials are monitoring the con
dition of a Colorado man who
launched a hunger strike to
protest his confinement at the
Lewisburg federal penitentiary,
a spokesman said Wednesday.
But Clifford Kinney, exec
utive assistant to Warden
George Wilkins, denied allega
tions by inmate John McBride,
28, of Durango, Golo., that he
has been placed in solitary con
finement and is being fed intra-
veneously.
“We don’t force-feed in
mates,” said Kinney. “If that be
came necessary, it would not be
done at Lewisburg.”
McBride is serving a 40-year
sentence as alleged mastermind
of a $15 million bomb extortion
plot against a Gulf Oil refinery
in Baytown in 1982. Four peo
ple were convicted or pleaded
guilty in the scheme.
In a letter released by his for
mer attorney Monday, McBride
said his incarceration at Lewis-
burg violates a 1983 plea
agreement that stipulated he
would serve his time at Termi
nal Island, Galif., a minimum-
security prison.
Kinney said McBride, who
arrived at the maximum-secu
rity Lewisburg facility Feb. 15,
was moved to the prison’s hos
pital unit March 9 when offi
cials became aware of the hun
ger strike so his condition could
he monitored daily.
McBride claimed in
, ' ls „ lel Mn most w
he stopped eating March2. ■ |0Lirna
Prison physician Dr. Vef es[ions j,,
Strubeck
physician Dr. V iL ions ,
n ■ vv ' a V* 1“'says-
Bndc Wednesday morningz* on , he
"he seems to be okay now.* jves a
(Strubec k) can see no causdiB^Uolk)
concern,” Kinney said. 1.
Kinney said although J Hom)L . k
Bride refuses food, he has w I p, (
drinking water and coffee, ■ : w j|
f le added McBride is held! I, „ t . ne ’ i a |
himself in a hospital .room i|^, TOt k s
are oilier inmates with mednH
problems, “but we don’t I
solitary confinement here]
such.”
Kinney said if Strubeckd
let mines McBride’s health!
deteriorated to a life-thread
ing condition, the inmatewiltl
transferred
ly have lx
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Presents a Seminar on Immigration Law:
UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT,
PLANNING THE FUTURE”
To be held at 7:30 P.M. on Friday, March 23, 1984
Room 302, Rudder Tower
Texas A&M University
Admission is free - Open to the public
Questions will be accepted after the presentation
AT&T hike
inquiry
requested
United Press International
AUSTIN — The lawyer
represents consumers in ui
rate cases Wednesday asked
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mission to investigate whelll
AT&T Communications’recti
rate hike request would suit
dize its national managenieii
attempts to lobby against!# ningaCa
ei ;d legislation. contain
AT&T Communications feideand se
its rate hike request on
with the Texas Public Ul
Commission last week, savic® Student
might not he necessary.
But Jim Boyle, consul
counsel in PUC rale cases,si
he still was concerned then
hike could have been used
boost the utility's successful!
forts to fight legislation
could have kept telephonerl
in check.
“Almost 50 percent oi all
penses which AT&T inclui
in its Texas rate filing will
paid to ATT-C (the mara
ment firm), and $133 millioi
ATT-C’s total expenses are
voted to public relationsorg
eminent affairs department
Boyle said.
“Ratepayers should not
asked to subsidize ATT 1
Views on telephone regulalii
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