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— Griffin Daily News Monday, September 19,1977
Page 16
Fever
South helps set record
By RICHARD LOWE
Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -
So many Rocky Mountain
spotted fever cases are being
reported in the South, a spokes
man for the national Center for
Disease Control says the tick
borne infection is named for the
wrong section of the country.
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As the tick season crawls to a
close, the nation is headed for a
record annual number of
spotted fever cases and, so far,
more than half the cases have
been recorded in the South.
Rocky Mountain states have ac
counted for less than 2 per cent,
an official of CDC in Atlanta
says.
“Rocky Mountain spotted fe
ver is really a misnomer now,"
Bob Alden said in an interview.
“It appears to be a disease of
southern and South Atlantic
states. It’s very rare to have a
fatality with treatment, but
without treatment, the death
rate is around 20 per cent.”
A doctor at the center says 911
cases, 26 fewer than last year,
were reported by Sept. 9 and
that Southeastern states and
Virginia accounted for 536 cases
of this year’s total.
“Clearly, we’re going over
last year,” Dr. Lawrence
D’Angelo said. “Traditionally,
North Carolina is the highest.
There were 192 reported cases
there last year and there are
already 185 there this year.”
Virginia has reported 142
cases this year compared with
100 in 1976 and Tennessee, with
88, is one case behind last year’s
record number.
“The illness was first de
scribed in Rocky Mountain
states,” the doctor said, “but of
the 911 cases so far this year,
only 12 have been recorded
there. It’s difficult to explain.
We’re studying it but right now
we just don’t know why.”
Louisiana, which had no
spotted fever cases in 1976, has
reported 4 this year, while
Florida, with 4 last year, has
recorded 1 in 1977. Georgia,
with 52 cases, is 4 cases behind
1976.
“Ticks just don’t live in Loui
siana and Florida because of
the location of those states,”
D’Angelo said. “We’ve been
studying the situation in Geor
gia and we’ve found that as you
move further down the state
and get past a certain line, the
ticks aren’t around. Climatical
ly, the ticks can’t adjust well.”
Fever-carrying ticks, about a
quarter inch in size, can be
carried by animals, including
pets.
“The dog tick is implicated in
spreading the illness in the
Southeast,” D’Angelo said, “but
they don’t always die, so the
role of the dog is not altogether
clear.”
The spotted fever season,
which peaks in June and July
and tapers off at the end of
September, killed 33 people in
1976 and 19 this year, five of
them in Virginia.
Alden said ticks carrying the
fever can infect humans if they
remain attached two hours or
more. Fever, chills, headaches
and muscle aches occur within
10 days. Fever victims are usu
ally identified when they be
come so sick they realize they
need a doctor.
“You can pull the tick off with
your hand or tweezers,” Alden
said. “The point is to go ahead
and pull it out. There is the
theoretical risk that you can get
infected in handling it, but
you’ve got to get rid of the tick.”
The number of cases rises
during summer as people spend
more time outdoors.
“But it’s not just a phenome
non of the parks,” Alden said.
“There could be ticks right in
your neighborhood. Outdoor ac-‘
tivities have inreased in popu
larity so more people are going
to go where ticks are found, but
as you expand the suburban
areas, new houses are built in
tick infested areas.”
Statistics for 1977 show there
were 45 cases in South Carolina,
5 fewer than 1976 ; 3 in
Mississippi, down 27; 16 in Ala
bama, down 1; 66 in Oklahoma,
down 26, and 65 in Maryland, up
38.
Don't raise hoop
LOS ANGELES (AP) - John
Wooden has been retired for a
couple of years as head basket
ball coach at UCLA but still
has definite ideas about how
college basketball should be
played. The great coach was
asked what he thought about
raising the basket a foot or two
to cut down on the advantage
enjoyed by taller men over
short ones.
“I’m not really for it,” he
sad. “I think taking away of
fensive rebound baskets would
achieve the same purpose.
Raising the basket would only
cut down shooting percentages
and lead to stalling. Any team
that got as much as ten points
in front would think it had the
game won and would simply go
into a stalling act."
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Betters times are ahead
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) — Out
there on the firing line, where
the deals are real and theories
and forecasts count for nothing,
a significant change may be oc
curring in business’ attitude to
ward capital spending.
The evidence is brand new
and previously unreported, but
it is hard — not an analysis or
guesswork. It is this:
A spending mood seems to be
developing. A wide spectrum of
business is committing funds
for expansion and improvement
of plant and equipment. In ef
fect, business is getting ready
for better times.
The evidence seems to in
dicate that one of the most per
sistent economic laggards, cap
ital spending, is about to feed
new strength into an economy
that has been losing strength. It
suggests that wavering busi-
ness confidence has begun to
stabilize.
The most precise report
comes from the big leasing-fi
nancing unit of Commercial
Credit, a Control Data sub
sidiary.
“We’re hearing more now in
the marketplace about acquisi
tion plans than we’ve heard
since the boom years of 1973 and
1974,” said a spokesman.
The upturn has been especial
ly strong in just the past 60
days, said Donald Mikesell, a
top executive with the unit,
Commercial Credit-McCullagh
Leasing, which has about $1 bil
lion of financial outstanding.
Mikesell states with little
qualification that his concern’s
current experience foretells a
rise two months from now in the
official government figures for
capital spending.
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dealing with real prblems and
real demands,” he said. “We
know what we see 60 days ahead
of the Commerce Department
figures.”
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fears that an economic slow
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recession.
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lease of expensive capital
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turndown. We’re seeing an up
swing.”
Asked to name some of the
items being financed, he cited
construction equipment, ma
chine tools, punch presses, ma
terials handling equipment and
transportation machinery.