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by Kevin Thom:
Researcher concentrates studies
on influenza treatment prevention
By RODNEY RATHER
Reporter
Influenza vaccines exist that can
prevent the flu, but most people do
not take them, according to John
Quarles, assistant professor of medi
cal microbiology and immunology at
Texas A&M.
Because the flu is not a life-threat
ening disease, people do not feel the
need to protect themselves from it as
they might against polio or dipthe-
ria, Quarles says.
For nearly 10 years, Quarles has
been at A&M conducting research
on how to prevent or cure viral in
fections. This usually involves test
ing vaccines.
Jn the vaccine work, we’ve been
involved primarily in testing a new
type of influenza vaccine — the
nose-drop kind — as compared to
the kind you get as a shot in the arm,
with the idea that it may be better or
more acceptable to some people,”
Quarles says.
The vaccines are not tested at
A&M until they have gone through
several years of testing at the Na
tional Institutes of Health. These
governmental agencies help fund
medical research, so the vaccines are
considered safe and possibly useful
before Quarles starts testing them
on campus. He tries to determine if
the vaccines are actually useful.
“Our part of the question is ‘Do
they worx? Do they work in the real
world?”’ Quarles says.
That question is answered in part
by counting the number of A&M
students who get the flu each year
and having volunteers participate in
flu studies.
About 15 to 35 percent of A&M
students get the flu each year, al
though the statistics vary from year
to year, Quarles says. As few as 15 to
18 percent of the students may get
the flu in one year, while as many as
50 percent may get it in another
year. These percentages closely re
flect the percentage of people who
get the flu in other areas, like Dallas
and Houston, he says.
The influenza outbreak at A&M
usually starts in mid-January, imme
diately after Christmas vacation, and
lasts until spring break, Quarles says.
The outbreak occurs at the begin
ning of the spring semester because
students return to school after inter
acting with various people around
the world, where they may come in
contact with various types of dis
eases.
“Students leave and scatter out all
over the world, so someoneista
to pick something up and briri
back,” he says.
In the flu vaccine study, the
unteer is given the serum in'
usually October because the I
needs about two months tol
protection against the virus !
the volunteer waits to see if he
tracts the disease.
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the two or three major typesofi
fluenza, which change consu
from year to year, out coins
sense is the best preventive medt
in combating the flu, other than
use of vaccines, Quarles says.
“Try to eat and sleep decentlii
not let people sneeze on you otis
you or do things like that if tM;
obviously infected," he says
ak
“College students are in kindi
special situation. They can’t*
rest as much as they should,
don’t always eat properly and
get a little run-down.’’
Currently, Quarles is prep
for a study on the treatments
fluenza to lie conducted in Jana
and is not using students in hi<
search.
A&M profs visit to Sri Lanka
fascinating, educational
By JEAN MANSAVAGE
Reporter
When Dr. David Reed informed
his Horticulture 201 class he would
not be teaching the class for a month
because he was going to Sri Lanka,
his students chuckled. They figured
that it was one of Reea’s light
hearted gags.
It wasn’t.
Reed left Oct. 7 for the small is
land country off the southern coast
of India to teach a post-graduate
course at the University of Perade-
niya. He also evaluated the school’s
research program and advised one
of their graduate students. He re
turned Oct. 31.
Aside from his university busi
ness, Reed says he learned more
about tropical horticulture, his speci
ality, during the visit.
‘oince my area of expertise is
tropical horticulture, I was able to
gain first-hand knowledge of what
I’d been preaching,” he says. “It was
an opening of awareness of my ex
pertise.”
Reed says he was fascinated by
scenes of local culture such as the
fire dancers who perform with
torches pierced into their cheeks.
i chipping away at huge boul-
dth chisels for days to make
Men
ders with
gravel and women working in rice
E attics, cultivating the grain by
and, illustrate the country’s heavy
reliance upon manual labor, he says.
One slide from the^ trip shows
Reed in casual American dress —
Izod shirt, jeans and boat shoes —
atop an Asian elephant. This laid-
back style is also typical of Reed at
Texas A&M.
He enjoys chiding his students
about drinking Coke too early in the
morning. They should drink coffee
to get their caffeine, he says.
Reed’s sense of humor comes
through even in his class lecture
supplement.
His drawing of the nitrogen cycle
of soil has a squirrel dying of a heart
attack and decomposing to add or
ganic material to the soil.
The women in the class didn’t like
when it was a hunter that led to the
death of the little squirrel, so it is a
heart attack that kills him, Reed says.
Reed says students at A&M
should experience the Asian culture.
“Everbody should go once,” he
says. “Sri Lanka is good exposure to
Asian culture.”
Sri Lanka is a poor country with a
low standard of living, bulk hat
famine and its people are highlj
ucated, Reed says. Every pera
met there could speak Sing!
and English.
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qualify through the post-gradi
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HOUSTON — A Houston physi
cian who the Texas attorney
al’s office is suing defended the use
of a weed killer in the diet clinics he
owns, saying the chemical is effective
in helping patients lose weight.
The attorney general’s suit con
tends the chemical 2-4 Dinitrophe-
nol can cause serious side effects —
including vomiting, high fever,
headaches and abdominal pain, but
Dr. Nicholas Bachynsky said “every
drug has some side effects.”
Bachynsky, who owns Physicians
Clinics, said Dinitrophenol is effec
tive in treating 90 percent'of the pa-
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tients with weight problems.
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poison, but whether it’s taken in
proper doses,” Bachynsky said. A
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