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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 11,1977
‘Major advance’
WASHINGTON (AP) - De
velopment of the first drug ca
pable of treating virus-caused
diseases is a “major advance,”
comparable to the discovery of
penicillin nearly 50 years ago,
health officials say.
Scientists with the National
Institutes of Health announced-
Wednesday a new experimental
drug, adenine arabinoside, has
been used successfully to treat a
rare virus-caused brain dis
ease.
Manufactured by the Parke-
Davis pharmaceutical company
of Detroit, the unpatented drug,
also known as ara-A, was ad
ministered to 28 hospital
patients suffering from herpes
encephalitis, a disease that de
stroys brain cells.
Dr. Charles A. Alfred Jr. of
the University of Alabama, who
coordinated the NIH-sponsored
tests at 15 medical centers, said
they showed that ara-A reduced
Dog hero of cops-robbers chase
ASHBURN, Ga. (AP) — An 11-year-old bulldog named
Henry was the hero of a cops-and-robbers drama that
began with the attempted robbery of a sefvice station and
covered two south Georgia counties Wednesday.
Two Florida men were arrested after a bullet-punc
tuated, 110-mile-an-hour chase in which the windshields
were shot out of two police cars. No injuries were
reported.
Witnesses gave this account:
Two men, one armed with a sawed-off shotgun and the
second with a pistol, walked into a Turner County service
station owned by Henry’s master.
“Henry,” shouted night manager Hubert Nipper.
The 100-pound pit bulldog, trained to attack on com
mand, lunged at the man with the shotgun and sent him
sprawling. The gunmen ran to a car and sped away.
Henry retreated to his favorite corner while Nipper
called Ashburn police, who spotted the car headed north
on Georgia 159.
“They (the holdup men) were shooting at the Ashburn
Vance concluding peace mission
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -
Secretary of State Cyrus R.
Vance, concluding his latest
Middle East peace mission, ar-
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Drug treats virus-caused diseases
herpes encephalitis mortality
from 70 per cent to 28 per cent.
The virus that causes the dis
ease is a member of the same
herpes family that causes
chickenpox, shingles, fever
blisters and the venereal
disease, genital herpes.
The many infectious diseases
that attack humans are caused
mainly by two kinds of germs:
bacteria and viruses. The dis
covery of pencillin in 1928 led to
the development of antibiotics
that have been used suc
cessfully to treat most bacteria
related diseases.
But viruses have remained
resistant to these and other
drugs. Until the development of
ara-A doctors have able to treat
only the symptoms of viral
diseases, not the diseases
themselves, and had to hope the
body would successfully resist
the virus on its own.
If ara-A can be used success-
rived here from Jordan today
on the second leg of a fastpaced,
one-day swing through Arab
capitals to brief officials on his
talks with Israeli leaders.
Vance set out this morning
from Israel and flew 60 miles
east to Amman, Jordan, to con
fer with King Hussein. His U.S.
Air Force jet then hopped 110
miles northeast to Damascus,
where Vance briefed Syrian
President Hafez Assad.
The secretary’s final Middle
Eastern stop is Alexandria, 400
miles southwest of Damascus,
where he was to meet with
Egyptian President Anwar Sa-
fully in the treatment of herpes
encephalitis, there is reason to
believe it can fight off numerous
other virus-caused diseases,
such as the common cold and
influenza, scientists said.
Herpes encephalitis, which is
difficult to diagnose, is believed
to strike thousands of Ameri
cans each year, with only one in
10 victims making a full re
covery. Most survivors suffer
serious brain damage, and
many remain incapacitated for
life.
“This is exciting news,” said
Dr. Richard Krause of the
NlH’s National Institute of Al
lergy and Infectious Diseases of
the new test results.
“It is the first successful
treatment of a serious and life
threatening virus disease. It
opens up an avenue to a new
form of therapy for this class of
infections.”
Alfred said the drug also has
car,” said state trooper E.R. Connell, who joined the
chase. “I passed it, and they opened up on me. They fired
five shotgun blasts at me. Three charges of buckshot hit
my car, and one smashed the windshield.
“We were hitting 110 (miles an hour) up Georgia 159.
They turned right on Georgia 90 to Rebecca and then left
on Georgia 233 to Rochelle in Wilcox County,” he said.
Connell said the car stopped in Rochelle and both men
fired at him again before running into the woods.
Bloodhounds and a helicopter were brought, and two
men were arrested a short time later.
Police said the men — identified as Bruce Williams, 21,
of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Freddie Lee Allen, 18, of
Safety Harbor, Fla. — were charged in Wilcox County
with aggravated battery and possessing stolen property.
They said the two also will be charged in Turner County
with aggravated battery and attempted robbery.
As for Henry, he sprawled in his corner and gnawed a
bone.
dat. Vance is due in London
tonight.
Vance dispatched Alfred
Atherton, assistant secretary of
state for Middle Eastern af
fairs, to Saudi Arabia to brief
leaders there. Vance went to
Saudi Arabia during the initial
swing of his mission last week.
An official traveling with
Vance denied an Israeli news
paper report that the U.S. am
bassador to Egypt has met se
cretly with a representative of
the Palestine Liberation Organ
ization.
“There have been no meet
ings, at no place, at no time,”
the official said.
Vance indicated Wednesday
that Arab governments have
moved closer to meeting Is
rael’s demand for ultimate nor
malization of Arab-Israeli rela
tions. But, he said at a news
conference, “in the discussions
here in Israel, we did not nar
row the gap any further.”
“We have found that in some
cases what appeared to be irre
concilable differences have dis
appeared,” Vance said. “But
fundamental differences
remain ... on key issues” in
volving both the substance of
the Mideast dispute and
methods for resuming peace
talks.
Vance said he would act as go
between next month in talks in
New York between the foreign
ministers of Israel and the Arab
states, who are scheduled to
attend the U.N. General As
sembly’s fall session.
been used successfully in con
trolled tests to fight chickenpox
and shingles in cancer patients
and is being used by physicians
in treating runaway herpes in
fections in cancer and trans
plant patients whose normal re
sistance to disease has been
weakened by drug therapy.
But he cautioned that it is too
early to predict successful use
of ara-A against herpes dis
eases or other viral infections
on which it has not yet been
tested.
At present, ara-A is effective
against serious diseases only
when administered in
travenously and must be given
in a hospital. As a result, the
drug is not likely to be used for
some time to treat non-life
threatening infections such as
genital herpes and fever blis
ters in otherwise normal
patients, officials say.
Vance will shuttle proposals
between the Arab and Israeli
delegations in an effort to re
concile differences and allow a
reconvening of peace talks in
Geneva by the end of the year.
Prime Minister Menahem Be
gin said his talks with Vance
duplicated discussions in Wash
ington last month with Presi
dent Carter. "There is no rea
son to change... I think we took
a very positive attitude,” Begin
told reporters.
New drug
attacks viral
infections
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -
University of Alabama in Bir
mingham scientists reported a
significant breakthrough
Wednesday in the battle against
viral infections.
UAB research, with major
contributions from Southern
Research Institute, showed that
a drug called “ara-A" can be
used in humans to treat a dead
ly viral disease known as “her
pes simplex encephalitis.”
Herpes encephalitis is an in
flammation involving both the
brain and the spinal cord.
Scientists said until now
drugs have not been effective in
treating viral infections. One
UAB researcher said in his
opinion this is the most signifi
cant breakthrough to date in
drug treatment of viral in
fections.
“We are so excited about this
and hope this project will pave
the way for much more re
search and development in the
viral field, in much the same
way that penicillin opened the
door for work in the area of
bacterial infections,” said Dr.
Charles A. Alford of UAB.
Alford and Dr. Richard J.
Whitley coordinated UAB’s re
search on the project.
Whitley and Alford empha
sized that the great benefit of
the research is not only to show
what the drug can do to fight
herpes encephalitis, but also to
show that a drug indeed can at
tack a viral infection success
fully.
Herpes encephalitis kills 70
per cent of its victims and in
flicts severe brain damage on
most survivors, doctors said.
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Elizabeth Taylor and her husband John Warner talk to
Republican party supporters at a SSO-a-plate dinner held
Wednesday night in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre. Warner,
Policeman suspended
following beating
CUTHBERT, Ga. (AP) - A
police officer was suspended
without pay Wednesday night
after the Randolph County
sheriff said the officer beat a
citizen unconscious in the city
jail.
After a closed meeting of city
council, Mayor Hiram Good
man said that officer James G.
Pate 111 had been suspended
without pay until the next regu
lar council meeting Sept. 9.
“He’s the man who exercised
the brutality. He’s the one who
should be punished,” the mayor
said.
Albert Harris was taken un
conscious to a hospital,
shackled hand and foot, doctors
said, after having been severely
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He said he was beaten with
flashlights by Pate and two oth
er officers after Pate’s girl
friend claimed he had made ad
vances to her. Harris denied
making any such advances.
“Pate said he’s the only one
who hit Albert and the others
agreed,” the mayor said, re
counting statements before the
council.
Harris said he arrived at the
jail after the incident with
Pate’s girl friend and began ar
guing with Pate and two other
officers. When he saw it was
getting out of hand, he tried to
grab the phone to call the poUce
chief. .
Then, he said, he was sprayed
with Mace and beaten.
an unofficial candidate for the U. S. Senate from Virginia,
was in Atlanta to attend fund raising receptions.
(AP)
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