The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 10, 1983-Page 5 Michigan girl dies of rabies; first since 1948 '-I By HALLE CZECHOWSKI A five-year-old girl diagnosed as having the first case of rabies in Michigan since 1948 died shortly before 8 p.m. yesterday at the University's Mott Children's Hospital, according to a hospital spokesman. The Jonesville, Mich. girl, whose name was not released, may have been bitten by a bat some time last fall, Dr. Thomas Slope, director of Pediatric In- fectious Diseases at the hospital, said yesterday. THE CHILD, who was brought to the hospital on Feb. 12, had been in a coma for three weeks and on a life support system for two weeks. So few cases of rabies are contracted each year that it is difficult for doctors to say what course the virus will take. THE CHILD was taken to a Hillsdale County hospital on Feb. 5 after a skating accident. When her condition began to deteriorate, she was tran- sferred to Mott Hospital. Doctors initially suspected the girl had encephalitis or meningitis, but also began testing her for rabies. The third series of tests confirme the child had rabies, but it was too lat to innoculate her against the virus, Shope said. THE GIRL'S parents said they had found bats while roofing their home lash fall and that the child told them at thd time that a bat had scared her, said Jod Owsley, a hospital spokesman. But hei parents found no signs of a bite and weren't concerned, he said.II While six months is an unusually long incubation period - the normal period is 18 to 60 days - the virus has been known to show up in a victim as late as one year after being bitten by a rabid animal. Humanities panel holds final hearing Dinner for two Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT LSA sophomore Kathy Coborn enjoys a steak dinner with Wolverine offensive linesman Stefan Humphries last night at a banquet at Martha Cook Hall residents held for football team members. A gent WASHINGTON (AP) - Beach and not Vietna veteran asked why the bought out a town in Miss exposed to dioxin but won' veterans exposed to the s ce in Vietnam, Air Fore Youngwas ready. he flahsed onto a sc showing an orange and an, His point was that the posure was so much grea Beach, Mo., than in Vietn. paring the two situations paring, well, apples and o For years, the Ve ministration has dismiss claims that dioxin in th sprayed in Vietnam da health. So the VA was pu when another agency of moved so fast after dioxin Times Beach, population2 YOUNG, AN en specialist on loan to the V ted a pile of data intended herbicides sprayed in Viet the culprit, but his dat suaded the veterans. The Centers for Dis Orange: DioXii - Why Times decided that one part per billion of m? When a dioxin was enough to be a health risk. government The concentration of dioxin in Viet- ouri that was nam was much heavier. The VA says it 't compensate was an average of two parts per million ame substan- in Agent Orange - the herbicide ce Maj. Alfin sprayed on jungle growth in Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1971, 11 million reen a slide gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed apple. in Vietnam. degree of ex- NONETHELESS, Young argues that ater in Times Vietnam veterans are at less risk than iam that com- the people of Times Beach. And he says was like com- he doubts that either group is at much ranges. risk at all. eterans Ad- Young says the Missouri residents sed veterans' were exposed far longer to far heavier ae herbicides; concentrations of dioxin "and hence the amaged their possibility of getting a dose in the body ut on the spot that could have an adverse effect is f government greater in Times Beach than in Viet- n was found in nam - far greater." 2,400. Not everyone agrees. Rep. Thomas Ivironmental Daschle, (D-S.D.), has authored a bill, TA, has collec- introduced Tuesday in the House, to d to prove that compensate veterans for disabilities tnam were not resulting from some diseases a hasn't per- associated with dioxin. SINCE THE WAR'S end, more than ease Control 100,000 veterans have taken a special VA 3 anger? medical examination out of suspicion that Agent Orange exposure has affec- ted their health. And 16,564 veterans, many of them suffering from diseases they cannot otherwise explain, have filed for disability compensation. The VA has rejected the claims, ex- plaining that no link has been established between the herbicide and any disease veterans are suffering. Young puts the difference between Times Beach and Vietnam this way: He calculates that maybe 300 pounds of dioxin were put down over perhaps 5,000 acres in Missouri while 368 pounds of dioxin were sprayed over three million acres of Vietnam. Lewis Milford, a lawyer with the Vietnam Veterans Law Center at American University, disputes Young's calculations. "EPA presumably thought that dioxin levels at Times Beach were a danger to human health" Milford says. "The dioxin levels there were at least one part per billion; in Vietnam, veterans were exposed to Agent Orange with concentrations of between one and 2 parts per million. (Continued from Page 1) charged that the courses are identical to the ones he took in his senior year at Ann Arbor's Huron High School. Aupperle suggested removing the Great Books requirement and allowing freshpersons to choose from a wider variety of courses, including those of- fered in LSA. THE CHARGE to the review commit- tee members asked them to consider making engineering students take all or some of their courses indLSA. Although they admitted the humanities department's literature courses could probably be replaced with LSA offerings, some students ex- pressed concern that the school's curriculum would not fit their needs or that they would not be as comfortable in LSA classes. "It's a lot more competitive in LSA in every class I've taken," said engineering senior Dana Hewitt. "They don't have it as easy as we do getting jobs." HEWITT AND other speakers praised the technical writing program, saying it should be expanded and of- fered to students as early as their freshman year, instead of in their junior year as it is now. Some students argued that engineers should take more classes outside of their school so that they could exchange ideas with students who have different interests, but others said it would be beneficial to study among other engineers in humanities courses slan- ted toward their specific interests. Although he expected a larger tur nout, committee Chairman William' Kuhn said the session had been ex- tremely informative. He said the panel still plans to issue its final report by the end of this month, after which the issue will be. in the hands of Engineering Dean James Duderstadt and Vice President for Academic Affairs anA provost Billy Frye. ----r-r-- mmmmm~mm=mmmmmmmmmmg FLIPPER McGEES B TOKENS for$1 _ & 2 with Student I.D. I 1217S. University bm mmm -m m m mmm mm mm mm m o~== m mm The Writers in Residence Program at the Residential College PRESENTS A READING BY ANDREW G. CARRIGAN Poet - Author of To Read to Read, The Threshold of Heaven, Babyburgers Tuesday March 15 8 PM Benzinger Library Easf Quad (East University between Hill and Willard) A Reception for Mr. Carrigan willfollow the Reading THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED Mr. Carrigan will be the Guest at The Hopwood Tea Thursday, March 17, The Hopwood Room, 1006 Angell Hall, 3:30. The Writers in Residence Program at the Residential College is made possible, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts EPA administrator Burford resigns (Continued from Page 1) SPEAKES SAID Burford is to be ap- pointed to a "major" commission or board but, at her request only in a part- time capacity. He said John Whitlock Hernandez, deputy EPA administrator, was named acting EPA director pen- ding a search for a new replacement to begin today. Speakes, asked whether the timing of BUrford's announcement was related to the agreement about releasing the documents, said: "There's no connec- tion between the two." The documents to be released to Congress are at the center of a half- dozen investigations into the agency's $1.6 billion "superfund" program to clean up toxic waste dumps. THE AGREEMENT was announced on Capitol Hill by Rep.' John Dingell, (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce investigations subcommittee, and Rep. James Broyhill (R-N.C.), its ranking Republican. Dingell told a news conference that "a very difficult negotiation has been concluded honorably by all parties.'' The formal agreement does not waive executive privilege. But its effect is the same. It calls on the White House to give Dingell's subcommittee all documents to be held by the committee on Capitol Hill. A MORE restrictive agreement reached with another subcommittee allowed congressmen only to view the documents, not keep copies. According to a "memorandum of un- derstanding" issued by the White House, the EPA will identify any documents or portions of documents that it considers "enforcement sen- sitive," a designation to identify material whose disclosure could jeopardize enforcement work of the administration. The subcommittee agreed to treat any "enforcement-sensitive" material as confidential, and any decision to release it to the public must be preceded by "reasonable advance notice to the EPA. 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