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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1986
Campus/Area
Clinic set to stop spread of measles
United Press International
TOPEKA - A special clinic to immunize students will be conducted today and tomorrow at Topeka West High School, where at least four confirmed cases of red measles were reported.
Three other cases — two at Topeka West and one at another school — were suspected by health officials yesterday.
Ray Baker, a physician with the Topeka-Shawnee County Health Department, urged parents and school officials to check immunization records to help prevent spread of the highly communicable disease.
Robert Snyder, director of immunization programs for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said officials do not know how the measles were imported to Shawnee County or whether the outbreak is related to the 22 cases reported in Newton, Harvey County.
Baker said it would be a miracle if the affliction did not spread to other schools and other students. There have been no significant numbers of measles cases in Shawnee County for about 10 years, he said.
Earlier this month, health officials reported a measles case in a Shawnee County adult, but said the case was not connected to the Harvey County outbreak.
Because of strictly enforced immunization programs, measles are a rare occurrence these days.
Jan Sauerwien, director of the Harvey County Health Department, said the cause of the outbreak in Newton had not been determined. The most recent case was diagnosed Jan. 17, she said, meaning the county should be in the clear if no other cases surface by Feb. 17.
The Newton outbreak began at a middle school, but spread to outside the school. Suerwerwin said about 700 people were inoculated after the outbreak.
Measles are a viral infection, spread through the respiratory system. Red measles also is called hard measures and is different from three-day measles, which also is called German measles.
German measles gained notoriously for causing birth defects in babies whose mothers had the disease while pregnant. However, red measles also can be dangerous for pregnant women.
groups that are susceptible to being infected by red measles include those who received their immunization before age 1, those who were immunized before 1988 and those who have never been immunized.
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Dungeons and Dragons will meet at 6:30 p.m. today in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
The Minority Business Student Council will meet at 6:45 p.m. today in Room 102 of Summerfield Hall.
*Stephen Dee Edwards will demonstrate glass blowing techniques at 9 a.m. today at the University of Kansas Glass Barn, on west campus.*
- Irwin G. Sarason, professor of psychology at the University of Washington and editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, will speak at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Alderson Auditorium of the Union. He will speak about "Social Support, Personality and Health."
The Dr. Who Fan Club will meet at 7 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium of the Union.
The KU Kempo Karate Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in the Multipurpose Room in Robinson Center.
- The Latin American Solidarity will meet for rice and beans at 6 p.m. today in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building. A $1.50 donation will be accepted.
Shirley Quastler, member of Accredited Public Relations, will speak about the Public Relations Student Society of America, at 7 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Union.
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