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Show r.uv mi i nin in i. i ii I'l.n.. t i.,h simi.i.v iuU :n Medical workers notice increase of sleeping sickness in Sudan UKl WIMUW H an alarming increase in sleepin Tamlmra ing sickness County, where the disease had heen virtually eradicated less III Dr. TAMIU'UA. Su.l.in K'u hiT it Mod hrr Mich.ili i liaiul on tin- IumiI n .luliana .lima, a a i ar ild paiirnl who Ii a wool blanlav i uilcd iniii-.ilii'al ket m tinlroinal ".luliana' ' said I lit' doctor "luliaii i' Wake up' than 11 1 - Tlir trail. lilmluii Iht ri-- pound iL' jirl wide open, as ,il lellipli'd to unlurl the ;;ulV spindly liniliv liul siii was as still' as a slct'l lii llrd iadi.il " lii n ( .line iii she in il raiH iv I ,i n'lililu'l Mai I i I I, ilk,' oi said mcd Apnllinv .mi la n at l a ililiura 'Shr mild not fit up l " In and n liitev eeilti.il nei'Mni- - III ,ltlrlll allied lieds Ii d n allv dnna's v Mi ill lis ti i i i nK s. pai.o-Hiniasi- the ilhr.iM' mure iuiiiiionl known as sleepnij: su klless. If she had not lleell tlealed. .lima each infected person becomes a reservoir of parasites that are would have lapsed into a coma and died In the last Mar. medical workers in May. v I.lkc tlir olllrl this waul o nii l.il I'onsunied ajjo. called the outbreak "catastrophic" and said it could be "among the highest levels of panosomiasis documented in this century." I'nrhecked, sleeping sickness is efficiently fatal. Transmitted by the bites of blood sucking tsetse flies, the one cell trypanosome parasite multiplies and kills its host in about two years. Meanwhile, m Ii n ii i years I a i ll I I h rat in j a a r I 10 The rapid spread of sleeping sickness illustrates how a disease that was under control just a few years ago can move swiftly through countries devastated h war and poverty conditions that are all too typical in tlie highly unstable area of central Africa known as the ( Il eal Lakes region, )r. Anne ('. Moure, a medical epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and l'ie etit ion w ho visited the area spread throughout the human population. CARK for Workers this remote corner of southern Sudan have noted International und the International Medical Corps have found that more than 20 percent of people tested in Tamlmra County have contracted sleeping sickness an estimated fi.000 victims. In Ezo village, near the center of the outbreak, nearly half the population tested positive this month. In the late 1980s, less than of 1 percent of the population tested positive for the disease. Humanitarian agencies fear the problem has spread regionally. Taiiihura County abuts the Central African Republic and Congo, formerly known as aire. It is a remote, isolated area traversed by many refugees from the wars in Sudan and Congo, but few health workers. "What we're seeing now is devastating," Moore said in a from interview telephone Atlanta. "It can wipe out whole villages and no one will ever know." Six years ago, she said, a village in the Central African Republic called Razighiri, 50 miles from Tamhura, disappeared after virtually everyone died of sleeping sickness. one-tent- White House wants to protect Planes clip California redwood forest each other itv ii .ioM W, i.iu-.- billion Interior Department spending bill by voice vote. The bill includes $65 million to close a deal with a Canadian mining company to halt plans for the proposed mine outside Yellowstone. It also would provide $250 million to acquire 7.100 acres of the Headwaters Forest, where a timber company plans to cut thousands of in m ui i IV-- a ttnui - WASHINGTON' The Clinton administration is on the Senate to counting secure $.')lo million to protect a California redwood forest and block a gold mine near Yellowstone National Park. A Senate subcommittee on Friday agreed to provide the money, but the House has refused The money is in an Interior Department spending fill the Senate expects to approve, perhaps as early as redwoods. The money could only be spent if Congress approves the two land deals. That could cause problems for the two agreements because there is considerable opposition to the deals among some conservative Republicans in the House. Habbitt urged the full Senate to remove the condition, saying the "additional legislative hurdles ... are neither necessary nor helpful." The $.515 million is part of a next week differences The worked out in conference. a must be House-Senat- Interior Secretary Bruce Habbitt. responding to Friday's action in the Senale. said the two land acquisitions to protect the Headwaters Forest in California and block the Mine near Yellowstone were "high environmental priorities." The two land deals were negotiated by the Clinton administration last year, but now await funding. Knviron mental ist s have opposed the cutting of the redwoods in the private Headwaters Forest and contend the gold mine could cause harm to environmental $700 million package for special land purchases, including $100 million to revitalize a program that funds stale public land purchases. Boosting the state programs had been a top priority of Sen. Frank Min kowski. who is chairman of the New-Worl- Yellowstone. A Senate Appropi lat ions subcommittee passed the Army tSPI.A) since 1!)!)0. The SPI.A has been waging a civil war against Sudan's Islamist government for autonomy of the Christian and mainly animisl south. The SPLA's relations with team headed by Richer continued to encounter problems at SPI.A roadblocks. "The soldiers were just crazy and drunk and jumping on the car," said Richer, of International Medical Corps, an American aid organization. Such an unstable climate is the ideal environment for sleeping sickness to rt itself. "People have sort of forgotten how important this disease was," Moore said. "At the turn of the century, it was the number-one public health threat in the tropics, a greater threat relief agencies here is strained, adding to the difficulty of assessing the health problem. In May, the CDC team from Atlanta suspended its study than malaria." after the SP1.A commandeered There are two strains of several CARK vehicles to take African sleeping sickness, both soldiers to the front. The confiscation violated rebel agree- so lerocious they killed off ments with the United Nations many European explorers and not to use aid vehicles as made much of Africa's interior uninhabitable by colonia'ists or instruments of war. "When you've been Jit war for livestock. Africans were not 1M or what immune: of the or 5 years four war is all you know said an Ugandan population died a million of Walto. Dennis sleeppeople exasperated South Philadelphia ing sickness in a 1J)0(? outnative who directs CARK's break. The Last African form office in Tamhura. "There's no brucei rhodesiense)" sense of right and wrong. There's no security here. We acts within a month and is prideal in relat ive degrees of risk." marily a threat to travelers who wander into wildlife areas. Ijnsit Sunday, the medical 1 1 1 two-third- "(try-panoso- e infected. "What we need to do is sterilize the human reservoir," Richer said. Doctors inject patients with pentamidine during the first stage of the illness"," The drug is about 9!) percent effective. As the parasite multiplies and invades the central nervous system causing letharthe discoma and gy finally ease is treated with nine intravenous injections of the drug melarsoprol. anti-parasi- Melarsoprol is so toxic that 5 to 10 percent of patients treated with the drug die from the cure rather than the disease. 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