Salt Lake Tribune | 2003-11-28 | Page 13

TheSalt Lake Tribune WORLD Al3 Friday, November 28, 2003 aed lao ts a aa GEL PRS a tee Ultraviolet lig nts kill germs in office ventilation systems 7 UVRe ea Ber et slightly: scientists MicramA “Genetic drift” ef Every 20 Cems es Major change of DNA and variation “chicken” flu Russianflu H5N1 H1N1-x outbreaks at home and abroad bringfocus to the need for stockpiling for O Scares See 5nf Dd ee future pandemics world, putting flu experts on alert. In February, a family in serious type offlu, called H3N2, Hong Kongwasstruck with the bird flu H5N1 and one person whichhas beeninflicting human By SetH BORENSTEIN beings for more than 35 years. This nasty version has the potential to double the normal 35,000 annual U.S.flu deaths, re- Knight Ridder News Service - WASHINGTON — severe and early outbreak of flu is died. In March, a poultry flu, H7N7, hit the Netherlands, infecting dozens of people and kill- searchers say. Four children striking now in Texas, Colorado, ing a veterinarian. Luckily, the strains didn’t died in Denver this week, and Scotland and England, and top flu experts are warning that the world has too few antiflu medicines on hand if a global super outbreak of influenza, called a pandemic,hits in the future. one in seven doctor visits in Texas are for flu symptoms. “We will probably see more spread, but “a lot of alarm bells are going off,’ Webby said, be- saw in the 1968 [Hong Kong Flu] pandemic,” said W. Paul Glezen, director of the Influenza Research Center at the Baylor College of Medicine in flu-struck ties to start using genetic modification to make vaccines — a still untested process — and begin stockpiling anti-flu medicines. « “The world will be in deep eliza pandemicstrikes this week, ttfis month, or even this year,” influenza researchers Richard Webbyand Robert WebsterofSt. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis write in Fri- day’s issue of the journal Science. Theworstisn’t here — yet. “What we're experiencing now is a bad flu season, not a pandemic,” said Bruce Gellin, director of the National Vaccine Program Office and a seniorofficial at the U.S. Department of year that we'll see [U.S.] mortality in the range of65,000 to 70,000, whichis high.” As bad as Fujian is, however, experts fear something worse — the passage to humanbeings of an entirely new strain that would spread more quickly and with deadlier effect because people don’t have immunity. Such strains are now running rampantin birds andpigs. Earlier this year, newer strains hit small pockets of the Look for the PY) oer lier Health and Human Services. “It’s a reminderto all of us how significant a disease influenza is and therefore a reason we have bioterrorism agent of the very worst kind, a natural bioterrorism agent,” Webster said. “How do we prepare for those things? Westockpile.” Health and Human Services’ Gellin said his agency is discussing the idea of stockpiling anti-flu medicines. But he said no decision has been made on whetherto do so. for almost a year. The use of the lights re- sulted in a 99 percent reduction of the concentration of germs on irradiated surfaces. Some weeks, use of the lamps resulted in a 20 percent overall reduction in all symptoms for some workers; a 40 percent reduction in respira- fice or other building ducts. In a study published this week in The Lancet medical journal, Canadian scientists reduction in mucous problems. found that the technique re- The benefits were greatest for duced overall worker sickness by about 20 percent, including a 40 percent drop in breathing people who. had never smoked. tory symptomsand a 30 percent workers with allergies and for problems. 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