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Wednesday, February 21, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Many rural Kansans may have unknowingly suffered a mild case of Q fever, and influenza-like disease that recently broke out in Maine, a KU biochemistry professor, who is studying the Q fever bacterium, said yesterday.
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the professor, David Parekety, said half the dairy cattle in the United States have had the disease. He said many people who live on farms probably had contracted the disease from cattle or other livestock, but mistaken it for a cold or the flu.
"Milk not satisfactorily pasturized might have caused the outbreak in Maine," he said.
Paretsky said the milk pasteurization process, which destroyed Q fever bacteria, helped to prevent outbreaks of Q fever in the United States. However, the disease is also common in South Africa and Eastern Europe, where pasteurization and other sanitary measures are rare, he said.
PARETSKY, WHO has been studying the Q fever bacterium and others like it for 20 years, said the disease was infections but not contagious.
"That means you can pick up the disease, but if you are sick and I stand next to you, ordinarily I won't contract the disease and it will not ice in my face and I breathe it in," he said.
paretks accidentally contracted the disease once, he said, while he was working
"In very many aspects, it's a lot like influenza. So the ordinary physician who diagnoses it may miss it—he may think it is influenza," Pareksky said.
with Q fever bacterium in his laboratory He said he had firsthand information on what Q was.
Q fever symptoms include high fever, fatigue and muscular weakness, severe headaches and sensitivity to light, a dry cough, an increase of fat tissue in the liver, ascariitis, a heart infection that could lead to heart failure, deceiving to Parestky.
Paretsky said people who had once contrained a mild case of Q fever probably would not catch it again. People who have been infected might have built up resistance to the disease.
THE DISEASE can be fatal but usually is not, Paretsky said. Q fever will hast a week if untreated, he said, but the fever would break in about 48 hours if antibiotics were given.
"We noticed in this lab, for example, that students who come to work here who come from rural backgrounds rarely pick up the disease," Parettsky said.
Paretsky and his associates work in their laboratory in Haworth Hall with the Q fever bacterium, Coxiella burneti, and with animals infected with the disease. Paretsky is analyzing the biochemistry of the bacteria and is trying to determine which toxic products of the bacteria cause Q fever symptoms.
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The Q fever bacterium is a parasitic organism, Pareketch said, and cannot grow if it is outside a living host, such as a cow. The Q fever bacterium also bury dormant in other conditions, he said.
In Paretsky's laboratory, the Q fever bacteria are kept dormant in fertilized eggs at minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit. Paretsky uses these bacteria in his biochemical experiments on infected animals. He said the bacteria would last for weeks in their dormant state.
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TODAY: FOREIGN STUDENTS MEETING will be all day in the Kansas Union. The WEDNESDAY FORUM begins at 11:45 a.m. at 1204 Oread. It will be the first of a two-session debate on issues in South Africa. The SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS will meet at 4:30 p.m. in 322 Malott.
TONIGHT: THE GUNG FU CLUB meets at 7:30 in 173 Robinson. An ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POETRY READING will begin at 8 in the Forum Room of the Union. Gryn Snyder, winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, will read his poems. William Albright, an organist, and Congregational Church, 825 Vermont St., as part of the 20TH SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN MUSIC CONCERT.
TOMORROW; A SUA FILM DISCUSSION with Halle Gerima, an Ethiopian film director, will begin at 9:30 a.m. in 3 GREEN Hall. A BACK HISTORY MONTH FORUM on issues in South Africa will be at 8 p.m. in the Jawahry Room of the Union. UNIVERSITY OF SAUDI ARABIA, at 5:30 p.m. Blake Hall. AN ANTHROPOLOGY LECTURE will be at 4 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union. An SPSS SEMINAR will be at 7 p.m. in the computer center auditorium. SCIENCE FICTION CLUB meets at 7 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union. SUA BRIDGE is at 7 p.m. in Paris. In PARIS we meet at 8:24. Robinson A. BANSAH will begin at 18:24 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE LECTURE on "Society, Drug Research and the Cost of Drugs" will begin at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union.
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