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University Daily Kansan, September 23, 1980
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Dog virus checked, vets say
ByGENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Strict leash laws and preventive medicine may spare the Lawrence area from an expected second wave of Parvov virus, a disease that infects dogs, W.F. Bradley, a local veterinarian, said yesterday.
During July and August, parts of Kansas experienced what some officials called an epidemic of the newly-dcovered virus.
Jacob Mosier, head of the Surgery and Medicine Department at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, said that the state should brace for an increase of the illness this fall.
BUT BRADLEY, who specializes in treatment of domestic pets, estimated that 95 percent of his clients' dogs had been vaccinated.
Bradley said Lawrence had tough leash laws that discouraged people from letting their animals run free. If the law is enforced, he said, dogs will be caught if they get out of which is transmitted by contact with an infected dog or the dog's excrement.
Not all veterinarians agree on the mortality rate of the virus, but William Bayouth of the Lawrence Animal Hospital said about 50 percent of the dogs that contracted the virus died from it.
Mosser said the mortality rate varied between classes of dogs, with puppies under the age of three months and show dogs being the most susceptible.
THE SYMPTOMS of the illness are vomiting and diarrhea, Bayouth said. The only treatment is restoring the liquid the dog's system has lost and letting the animal fight the virus, he said.
Bradley said Lawrence had a serious problem with the virus this summer,
"Back in July and August," he said,
"I had about a dozen cases. I lost three."
Bayouth estimated that the entire city had only 20 to 40 cases this summer.
PARVO VIRUS was discovered in the United States in 1978, Mosier said. He said there was some evidence that the might have been in Europe in late 1977.
Not much else is known about the virus, he said.
Moster discounted the theory proposed by some scientists that Parvoy is linked to the distemper virus found in cats.
He explained that the only clear connection is that the first vaccine developed to fight Parvio was made from the distemper virus. .
When Parvo became a nationwide problem, Mosier said, only one company had the approval of the Food and Administration to market a vaccine.
THE SHORT SUPPLY of the vaccine contributed to this summer's epidemic, he said.
"As soon as the supply builds up," Mosier said, "then the problems will get controlled, and we'll see only an occasional case."
Bradley said that not all Lawrence veterinarians had an adequate supply of the vaccine, but he added that his team had chosen a point where the virus was under control.
It is still important, Bradley said, to
dog once each year after the first
wave.
On the Record
Lawrence police arrested a 24-year-old Lawrence man yesterday morning and charged him with aggravated buriallarv.
The man was being held yesterday afternoon in Douglas County Call in lieu of arrest.
Police said that at about 2:30 a.m. yesterday the man entered a house on the 1600 block of Northwood, entered a room and threatened the woman with a handgun.
Police said the woman then screamed, waking her two roommates. One of the roommates turned on a hall light and called police, while the other came out of a nearby room with a rifle, police said.
According to police, the suspect then fled through the woman's bedroom
window moments before police arrived.
window moments before the suspect shortly afterwards.
LAWRENCE POLICE are investigating a burglary in which athletic clothing and equipment worth more than $8,200 was stolen from First Serve, Inc., 804 Massachusetts St., police said yesterday.
Police have no suspects in the incident, and the case between 7 p.m. Friday to 9:48 a.m. Monday.
According to police, the athletic store had a security guard through a skylight in the case of the bulldog.
A GLASS WINDOW about one-quarter-inch thick fell from the fifth floor of the newly constructed east wing of Malott Hall Friday afternoon, KU
Police Captain John Mullens said yesterday.
No one was injured when the glass fell and shattered on a workman's car below, chipping paint and denting the car, Mullens said.
LAWRENCE POLICE also are investigating a rash of car vandalism in which 31 cars were vandalized over the weekend.
Twenty-six incidents involved windows of cars being either shot out with BB gun pellets or smashed with blunt objects, police said.
Each car suffered between $35 and $150 worth of damage, police said.
THE KU THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE will feature "A Toby Show," written and directed by Aurand Harris, who stars in the University Theatre in Murhvall Hall.
On Campus
An Art film titled "BEYOND CUBISM: MASTERS OF MODERN ART" presented at it p.m. in the Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art Audition.
TODAY
The Tau Sigma DANCE CLASS will meet at 7 p.m. in 242 Robinson with instructor Faria Clark.
TONIGHT
Arthur Young and Co., an accounting firm, will present "INTERNIEW TECHNIQUES" at 7 p.m. in the Forum Room in the Kansas Union. There will be an informal lecture, a mock interview, and a discussion. Refreshments will be served.
THE BIBLICAL SEMINAR at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Committee
TOMORROW
The SIERRA CLUB will meet in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union at 7 p.m.
--the new programs is to accommodate more people and provide more variety.
The KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7 am in the Kansas Union Parcels and A
The SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS will meet at 4:30 in 332 Malott Hall.
ECKANKAR will meet at 7 p.m. in 112 Fraser Hall.
Dr. Rose Greaves, professor of history, will lecture on "THE PERSLAN GULF REVISED" at 11:45 a.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center as part of the University Forum program.
Fitness clinic aids neglected bodies
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
Despite an increasing awareness of the benefits of physical conditioning and exercise, KU health official's said recently that the majority of faculty, staff and students were out of shape and doing little about it.
"Certainly more than 60 to 70 percent probably are not taking care of themselves as they could or should." said Wayne Osmess, professor of health, physical education and recreation and co-director of the KU Fitness Clinic.
THE FITNESS CLINIC is a facility in Robinson Center that offers scientific fitness evaluations and is part of several new programs developed by the department of health, physical education and recreation. The clinic is open to students, faculty and staff, as well as the Lawrence community.
Though the new classes—rhythmic aerobic exercise, aerobic swimming and weight training—also are aimed at improving fitness, Ossess said the main purpose of
Aerobic activity classes and weighttraining sessions will supplement the department's morning cardiovascular program, now in its seventh year.
"I'ts just been too crowded in the
cardiovascular fitness program.
I don't have to."
NO CREDITS are offered for the morning programs. Osness said they were not meant to take the place of fitness classes offered for credit, but those who cannot attend regularly offered classes during the day."
Rhythmic aerobics consist of a series of exercise routines of jogging, skipping, dancing and other rhythmic activities set to music. The class will start on Monday, August 16th, days, Wednesdays and Fridays in the new gym at Robinson Center.
Conditioning drills and lap swimming for intermediate and advanced swimmers will be the focus of aerobic swimming from 6:30 to 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays in the Robinson pool. Survival skills and basic strokes, such as the crawl and breast strokes, will be emphasized.
BEGINNING SWIMMERS should enroll in a beginning swimming class offered by HPER for credit, Osness said
The weight-conditioning program will be offered from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday in the weight room of Robinson Center.
Osness and Jean Pyfer, professor of HPER, will continue to direct the cardiovascular fitness program from 6:45 to 7:15 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in Allen Field House. The program emphasizes flexibility, exercise, running, jogging and some muscle toning, that is "all scientifically organized and based on heart rate or stress." Osness said.
The cardiovascular program is managed according to results gathered
THE PHYSICAL FITNESS tests offered by the clinic are fed into a computer, which evaluates physical performance and translates the results into a numerical profile. The profile is then compared to that of all people of the same age and sex who have been tested.
All persons over 35 who wish to participate in any of the morning programs must have the evaluation, which costs $15. Onessa said the money would be used for training and perform the tests and for any supplies used during the tests.
The tests consist of measurements of heart rate, blood pressure, and several measurements of heart and lung capacities.
Oness and Michael Bahke, in
academia and HEPN, will be in
chance of operating the
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