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By Jim Earle
‘Fifteen? You really have on fifteen layers of underwear?’
Friday, February 1, 1985/The Battalion/Page 11
Vaccine for V.D.
undergoes tests
Associated Press
STANFORD, Calif. — An experi
mental vaccine that could prevent
gonorrhea has been developed from
a bioengineered protein and tests on
volunteers will begin next year, re
searchers announced.
The vaccine is made from a
cloned protein fragment that ap
pears to produce a protective im
mune barrier against a broad range
of gonorrhea-causing bacteria, said
Dr. Gary Schoolnik of the Stanford
University School of Medicine.
In laboratory studies, the vaccine
blocked gonococcal bacteria from in
fecting human cells with the disease
that afflicts more than one million
Americans annually, Schoolnik said
Tuesday, t ests on volunteers will
begin within the next year.
“If the vaccine for gonorrhea is
successful, it would be fantastic,” Dr.
Mary Guinan of the Centers for Dis
ease Control in Atlanta said Wednes
day. We could make a significant
contribution to public health by pre
venting the disease instead of just
treating it after people get it.”
The report by Schoolnik will ap
pear in the February issue of the
“Proceedings of the National Aca
demy of Sciences.”
Gonorrhea, the most communica
ble disease for which records are
kept in the United States, spreads
through sexual contact and can pro
duce severe complications, including
infertility in women, meningitis, ar
thritis and eye disease for the chil
dren of afflicted mothers.
Union Carbide admits
to 83 chemical leaks
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Union
Carbide Corp., which reported last
month that there were 28 leaks of
the deadly chemical methyl isocya
nate at its Institute, W.Va., plant in a
five-year period, said this week there
actually were nearly triple that num
ber.
There were 61 “in-plant losses” of
MIC from Jan. 1, 1980, to Dec. 14,
1984, and 22 leaks of a mixture of
the chemical and phosgene, the
Danbury, Conn.-based company
said in a statement. None of the re
leases were extensive enough to
come under federal reporting re
quirements, Carbide said.
Both chemicals are used to man
ufacture pesticides. Production of
MIC was suspended at Institute af
ter the Dec. 3 leak of the chemical at
a Carbide plant in Bhopal, India,
which killed more than 2,000 peo
ple.
The Institute leaks are the subject
of a lawsuit filed against Carbide this
week. The suit, filed by a group of
Institute residents, seeks $3 billion,
alleging that the company knowingly
allowed MIC to leak from the plant,
and that the releases damaged the
plaintiffs’ health.
The company said Wednesday it
provided reports on 28 leaks of MIC
to the House Subcommittee on
Health and the Environment shortly
after the panel held a hearing in In
stitute on Dec. 14.
Under federal law, MIC releases
have to be reported to the EPA if at
least one pound of the chemical goes
beyond the perimeter of a plant over
a 24-hour period, the company said.
The company said it complied with
the law.
The EPA did not support that
claim. An EPA report released Jan.
23 said that of the reported leaks,
about 12 were less than a pound,
seven were greater than 10 pounds
and two were undetermined.
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