j Salt Lake City, emphysema cap. !by Wayne Wiekizer Horses and humans who get short of breath may have emphysema. According to Steve Westerberg, graduate student in microbiology at the University, ' horses are as apt to get emphysema as are humans. . Mr. Westerberg pointed out that the Salt Lake Valley is a likely k place to come in contact with I whatever causes the disease. This area records one of the highest ' incidences of emphysema per capita in the U.S. The National Institute of Health recognized this and has subsidized a research program through the University's medical center. i Emphysema second only to I heart disease as a cause of adult disability, is characterized by a ' serious shortness of breath. The j frightening aspect of this disease is that neither the cause nor a specific cure has yet been found. The research that Mr. Westerberg and his colleagues are doing is , vital. I Dr. Attilio Renzetti, professor l of medicine at the University ) Hospital, is in charge of a variety k of research efforts working on f emphysema from different i scientific directions. In a group of r approximately 100 persons, there are those with emphysema and rtro1 P and sent bacteriology EJK 0wn technique' . Mr- Westerberg bacteriology, is " ,fk ot keeping of interest in the ' of emphvC -'on,eSare,ikNot can be studied on, magnification. & organisms are not as 2 . Mr- Western formerly doctors,,.' certain non-specific L Pneumonia and BJ diseases, '..; infections." Now it is instead of being vim i they are often disuse', the illusive m Mycoplasma resent! relatively new ft-. -investigation. It is known that cert tend to be associate emphysema. Cigarette r and air pollution are i Mr. Westerberg and hiss are not looking for onlye, but a number of cue suggest that the disease t triggered by a confc. many things, makini research much moredilfa; Despite the eomjt emphysema research s hospital continues rapi staff members are opting looking for results in lie future.