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Show news Though no cases of the dread disease have been reported in Utah in 40 years, health care providers advise campers, picnickers to be careful. By Ernie Ogden J. Shannon ALC Public Affairs Office wild animals. Cogburn, commander, U.S. Air Hospital, Hill, rodents, prairie dogs, ground and tree squirrels are reservoirs for plague. "Fleas from an infected wild animal can transmit the diseases to their bites. humans through Ogden However, plague is treatable if diagnosed early. Symptoms include fever and painful, swollen lymph nodes that are associated with the area of the flea bite," he said. 1 "Plague awareness is an Air Force-wid-e program because, every so pros-Forc- ... The plague is very treatable, according to Colonel Dale, but early diagnosis is difficult because the disease occurs so infrequently. Nevertheless, Colonel Cogburn stressed prevention as the best policy and the surest way to continue Utah's excellent record. i ffiQ ftm3teQ 6SSD and screwdrivers. 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Terry Fisher, unit foreman of tool control in the Directorate of Maintenance, is in charge of six satellite tool cribs in six different buildings. Combined, they contain enough tools to fill 500 types of kits for 6,000 mechanics. "It's not easy," she says of the job delegated to 15 people in the six cribs. Especially with all the specialized jobs on base which require the specialized tools. Then, if someone asks for one they don't have, there's all the paperwork to fill out. That's once the purchase has been approved by the planning and engineering people. Once the tool is approved, it has to be purchased and put into the kits of the mechanics who may need it. Un pneumonic piague. BUDonic piague takes its name from lymph nodes which become enlarged by the ease. Its progression is accompanied e by fever, depression and great tration. The swollen lymph nodes are extremely tender and painful. Pneumonic plague affects the lungs and is communicable through coughing and spreading of the OiiGnHIDQEHDGIIB VTflr Office cle-co- Plague in man manifests itself in various forms, resulting in such designations as bubonic plague and anil fiSiiifc&Miyy ALC Public Affairs "We're pulling a wheel. Gimme the tools," an aircraft mechanic will ask the toolkeeper in Bldg. 225. And, if the tool's not in the guy's kit, the guy in the crib has to know what to give him even if it's not the one asked for. Tools. Crowfeet, chisels, spring pin pushers, torsion bars, hammers, flashlights, wrenches and rats carrying the disease." bacteria. less, of course, it's so specialized that it's set aside for temporary loan in a special drawer in one of the cribs, as shown by Ms. Fisher. If everyone who may need it gets one, then the individual inventory lists have to be changed. The lists are signed at the beginning and end of each shift to make sure that no tools are lost and lead to foreign object damage. According to Ms. Fisher, if one can't be found, work is stopped until it does turn up or until a direct order from the top calls off the shutdown. Sometimes, a mechanic can find somebody else's lost tool. But anyone can tell who it belongs to by the marks etched in by the lasers in Bldgs. 225 and 269. If that person is no longer at Hill, the tool is turned in to stock and reissued or stored. Obsolete tools are also stored. Broken ones are turned over to salvage. All of the changes require paperwork; that information will eventually be stored in the new tool computer By Chris Baierschmidt dis-Accordi- ng to Col. (Dr.) Bobby E. 11 To do job, Hill has a 'zillion7 tools, inventoried, marked, tucked in bins often, someone dies from it," said Col. James E. Dale, base environmental chief. "Several years ago, a child came into contact with a squirrel or something at the Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs, Colo.). He caught the plague and died, so there's a little increased awareness in the West," the colonel said. "During the Vietnam War, we saw incidents of the plague as troops dug into the ground or traversed underground tunnels," Colonel Dale said. "They would contact dead or dying Although the last reported case of the plague in Utah occurred nearly 40 years ago, base health officials olead caution when hiking, camninc: or picnicking in areas frequented by HILL TOP TIMES Friday, May 1, 19S7 14756 jj |