Tuesday, August 24, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Watkins offers immunizations
Certain students may need shots
By Amber Stuever
By Amber Steuer writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Watkins Memorial Health Center is reminding new students to get immunized now to avoid enrollment holds next semester.
Approximately 2,000 students were not allowed to enroll last fall for the spring semester because they had not been properly immunized or had failed to produce documentation of immunization when they came to the University.
Randall W. Rock, chief of staff at Watkins, said the center hoped to avoid future enrollment holds by reminding students to follow University policy, which requires vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella.
"The policy is a way to enforce people getting caught up, and it protects the individual, and it protects the campus community from infection and disease," he said.
Most students received the required vaccinations before entering kindergarten or first grade. However, international students may have been subject to different policies in their native countries. Also, some students born in the 1960s and early 1970s may have received their vaccinations under a different protocol that has since been found to be inadequate.
"The initial protocol was found to be less than universally effective and new protocol have been established to hopefully guarantee life-long immunity." Rock said.
Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) are common childhood illnesses that can cause serious problems during adulthood or pregnancies. Possible effects of measles are rashes, coughs, and fevers and the illness can cause ear infections, seizures, brain damage or even death.
Mumps can cause fevers, headaches and swollen glands and it can lead to deafness, swelling of the testicles and ovaries, or rarely, death
WATKINS IMMUNIZATIONS
For pregnant women, rubella can
■ Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
■ Cholera
■ Influenza
■ Hepatitis A (adult and pediatric)
■ Hepatitis B (adult and pediatric)
■ Japanese Encephalitis
■ Lymerix
■ Meningococcal
■ Oral Typhoid
■ Pneumococcal
■ Inactivated Polio
■ Parenteral Typhoid
■ Robies
■ Adult Tetanus/Diphtheria
■ Typhim
■ Varicella (chickenpox)
■ Yellow Fever
■ PPD
cause a miscarriage or serious birth defects.
Diane Hendry, Watkins' supervisor of radiology and MMR immunization administrator, said students who still needed shots would be reminded by mail soon. She said Watkins didn't yet know how many students still needed immunizations this year.
"Nobody wants to be sick, and nobody wants to be out of class for two weeks," Hendry said.
Erin McAovy, Chicago freshman, said she had no idea whether her shots were updated, but she understood the concern.
"I don't really worry about it, but I think it's really good that they require us to make sure everyone is so-called healthy around here," she said.
Students can get MMR immunizations at the immunization window at the radiology department in the east hallway of Watkins, by appointment or walk in to the general medicine clinic. MMR shots cost $10.
Watkins also offers optional immunizations cheaper than students would find at most medical clinics.
Immunizations can help prevent diseases such as cholera, influenza, hepatitis A and B, lymerix, yellow fever and chicken pox. The cost of some of the immunizations may be covered by insurance.
— Edited by Ronnie Wachter
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Vaccines may be used to kill junkies' buzzes
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Designer antibodies may sometimes be used to immunize people against the rush that users of cocaine and other drugs crave.
If these vaccines fulfill their promise, they could revolutionize emergency treatment for PCP and amphetamine users. And though they won't cure addiction, they could also help people who want to kick the habit, researchers say.
"Our goal would be to protect against the sudden unexpected urge to use, so that if the patient used it, he wouldn't get the effects," said Dr. Michael Owen, a pharmacologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences who hopes to begin tests this year on a PCP overdose treatment.
The illegal drugs all have molecules so tiny they sneak unnoticed through the body's immune system. To create antibodies, researchers must hook the molecule to a protein big enough to set off the immune system's alarms.
The drug-plus-protein can be injected directly, to prompt the body to make its own antibodies. Or scientists can create the antibodies by working with laboratory animals and then inject them into patients.
Either way, the antibody grabs the drug in the bloodstream before it
At least that's how it works in animals so far.
Antibodies could be used to treat an overdose or block a drug's effects for a longer period, perhaps a month or more.
gets to the brain.
PCP intoxication can be fatal, and both it and amphetamine psychosis can leave permanent mental scars, said Frank Vocci, head of medications development for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Alcoholism.
The ability to bind the drugs to antibodies could be a major leap forward in treatment for them, he said.
Cocaine addiction is a much bigger and trickier problem. More than 2 million people need treatment. About 900,000 a year start treatment, but at least three-quarters go back to the drug. Vocci said.
"Maybe if we had something to help them out for the initial period, it might boost the efficacy keep them in longer," he said.
One cocaine vaccine, developed by a biomedical company in Massachusetts, is already being tried on people at a Connecticut clinic.
The study was not designed to look at the effectiveness of the vaccine, but a few of the participants reported that cocaine "doesn't seem to have the bang that it used to have," Kosten said.
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