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Flu outbreak spans country,
killing at least 10 children
Ru hits Coloro
By Angela Brown
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH, Texas —
Tissues are disappearing so rap
idly from teacher Irma Natoli’s
desk that she’s resorted to hand
ing out paper towels to sniffling
seventh- and eighth-graders
struggling with flu symptoms.
“We’ve gone through boxes of
them,” said Natoli, who teaches at
Morningside International
Academy, a Fort Worth school for
sixth- through eighth-graders.
“They are constantly going to the
bathroom for toilet paper and to
wash their hands.”
As a nasty flu outbreak
spreads across the country,
schools are reporting more
empty seats as parents keep chil
dren at home to recuperate or to
protect them.
The flu is being blamed for
the deaths of at least five chil
dren in Colorado, three in Texas
and one each in Oklahoma and
New Mexico.
Children are particularly sus
ceptible because their bodies have
not previously been exposed to
the virus that infects the nose,
throat and lungs, according to the
federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Children’s Medical Center
Dallas has seen more than 500
children with the flu since
October. On Thursday more
than two dozen were in the
intensive care unit. Dr. Jane
Siegel said.
“Most of those children
require IV fluids ... and most
have significant enough lung
disease so they’re on a ventila
tor,” she said.
In a typical year 36,000
Americans die from the influenza
virus, bui flu researchers expect a
higher death toll this year.
The tlu season usually
stretches from October to May,
peaking in December and
January, but this year cases were
reported in some Western slates
as early as September.
Texas was the first state this
season where the flu was con
sidered widespread, the CDC’s
most severe ranking. Nine other
states — Washington, Idaho,
Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New
Mexico, Arkansas, Tennessee
and Pennsylvania — have since
been classified as having wide
spread flu outbreaks.
More than 6,300 flu cases
have been reported in Colorado,
more than in the previous two
years combined. North Dakota
has tallied 292 flu cases so far,
compared to just two this time
last year.
Many states, including
Texas, do not calculate the num
ber of tlu cases because they are
not required to report such cases
to the CDC.
Most of the outbreak this fall
has been a strain called A-Fujian-
H3N2, which was not selected for
this year’s tlu vaccine, according
to the CDC. Health experts say the
strain is closely related to the
strain the vaccine targets, A-
Panama-H3N2.
The high number of cases has
prompted more people to seek
tlu shots this year. More than a
Colorado has seen asp;
flu-like illness well above:;
national average.
14% Percentage of
doctor visits due to
influenza-like
10 illness
12
4 11 1825
October November
NOTE National figures nolavR
for Nov. 22 and 29: natal avsras
Includes data for Cokxadc
SOURCES. Colorado Depalm«;
Public Health and Environment Cw,
for Disease Control and Preventer
dozen
outside
Willian
ukxI in line Thursday
Fort Worth’s Bagsby-
s Public Health Center.
>t got over the flu. and I
nt to go through anything
again," day care worker
Bolen said. "It gets to
es. You don’t want to eat
just ache. It’s a thing that
will paralyze you."
The outbreak in Texas started
last month in Houston and
spread quickly, according to the
Cynthi;
your Ik
and yoi
stale Health Department
weekly number of cases ai!i
Children’s Hospital in H«s
peaked at 129 in mid-ftt;
In previous years, thetas
averaged 10 or fewer*;
cases during the season'; je
Hospitals are taking [n
tions. Wyoming’s Cant
County Memorial Hospiit
restricted any body under It:
visiting patients. And tlf
Plains Regional MedicalCta
North Platte, Neb. is ast:
one with even mild flu re
— runny nose, sore ite
cough — to put on a mad til
visiting someone.
Senate
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Rights and Labor Standards Investigation
Bill on its second reading. The bill provides
that the student body president form a com
mittee to research the labor conditions in
factories where A&M-Iicensed clothing is
manufactured and communicate those find
ings with the administration and organiza
tions at other universities.
Freshman senator Will Hailey, a fresh
men political science major, said the leg
islation was a positive step for the Senate
to take.
“The Aggie Spirit dictates that we use
what we’ve been given to help those less
fortunate than ourselves,” he said.
A report on sidewalk, lighting and
water drainage compiled by the Student
Services committee that included problem
areas on campus, will be submitted to the
Physical Plant.
Robin Capped, a senior accounting
major and chair of the Student Services
Fee Advisory Board, presented the rec
ommendations for the distribution of the
student services fee for the coming year
to the Senate on first reading, and the
Senate will debate whether to accept the
board’s recommendation at the next meet
ing on Jan. 28.
A bill designed to let students vote on
the proposed 65 cent increase per credit
hour, which would raise the student servic
es fee cap 12 cents past the $150 limit cur
rently in place, passed on first reading.
Once the $150 limit has been passed, the
University is allowed to raise the fee 10
percent each year, and the new limit would
then be $250.
A bill to dissolve two graduate senate
seats failed, as did a resolution thanking
the Graduate .Student Council for its
Diversity statement.
Both measures were introducedtas
uate senators Jackie Price and Cans
Rutherford.
A diversity resolution endorsed!;
GSC last month included a
support for the Rainbow GraduateSg
Association, a group that represent
lesbian, bisexual and transgendeiedp
ate students.
Price said she was disappointed!
Senate's lack of approval for then
lion, and that her graduate school
stituents requested she introducetta
lotion as a show of support forthed!
efforts.
The voting disclosure bill, suppd
Mark McCaig, a junior marketing
and the senator he recently atteni|
recall, junior political science major
Teems, would prevent secret ballot
being used to vote in the Senate.Itpfi
first reading.
Tuition
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stances, there lias been broad
support.”
Rusty Ince, a senior psychol
ogy and government major and a
member of the committee at UT,
said the administration was
receptive to proposals put forth
by the committee.
“We looked at all factors
and how much we needed and
what was fair,” Ince said.
“Every question we asked,
every consideration we had
was taken into account. Our
input is a crucial piece of this
process. We are not rubber
stamping what Ihe university
puts out for us.”
Ince said the committee
focused on student input. The
committee held forums, put
materials on the Web, held a
Web forum and talked to their
respective constituencies to get
input and suggestions. Ince said
a majority of the students at the
public forums were understand
ing about the tuition increases.
“I would recommend this for
every institution,” Ince said.
Ince said that with the tuition
increases to take effect in Spring
2003, the committee helped to
fund 60 percent of the universi
ty's deficit.
“As the move forward with
new freedom in regards to
tuition, this is another mecha
nism to ensure that changes in
the system are reasonable and
applicable for Texas A&M,”
Josefy said. “Fortunately, we
have an administration that is
responsive to student's needs.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
Study: Low to moderate drinking
may cause people to lose brain tiui
DALLAS (AP) — Low to moderate drinking!
cause a loss of brain tissue in middle-age peopl
study found.
The researchers also found that such alcohol cons;
tion does not lower the risk of a stroke — contf
findings from previous studies.
Using magnetic resonance imaging, or
measured the patients’ ventricular and sulcal areas-
of the brain containing only cerebrospinal fluid. In®
ventricular and sulcal size indicates a reduction in bi
sue, or atrophy.
The findings showed that both voids grew larc
more people drank.
Research associate Dr. Jingzhong Ding
researchers canno\ maV.e a rteWue cause-anc
link between drinking and brain atrophy because (lief
were done only once during the study and
found only a small reduction in tissue.
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