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Thursday, February 18, 1988 / University Daily Kansai
Blood not thick enough; crucial transplant denied
The Associated Press
MIAMI - A leukemia victim's long-lost brother has rejected pleas to determine whether his bone marrow is compatible, dashing the patient's best hope for survival.
"If he dies, he dies. He's about as much a brother to me as you are," Randy Jeff Chapman told a reporter for the Miami News.
Chapman, 31, ran away from home when he was 17 and lives on the streets here, working as a test subject for medical experiments. He refused to undergo tests that would check whether he could donate marrow to his brother, Steve Chapman, 38, of Oolitic, Ind. Chapman has another brother and sister who have already been tested and found incompatible.
The older brother suffers from acute leukemia and said he would die within two years unless a marrow transplant succeeded. He is receiving blood transfusions and chemotherapy at St. Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis.
Although his leukemia is in remission, his doctor said a marrow transplant should be performed within four months.
After reading an earlier news article about Steve Chapman's efforts to locate his brother in Miami, a friend of the younger Chapman called the newspaper and told them where Chapman was.
A reporter found Chapman on Tuesday at the downtown Dade County Public Library.
"I'm not even going to consider it," he said of the marrow donation request. "If I sound cruel, well, that's the way I feel. I'm not a very forgiving person."
Called at his hospital room, Steve Chapman said his brother's decision disappointed him.
"He must have turned into a hard person," he said. "I guess that's what living on the street does to you. I thought he would at least try to help, but that's the way things go."
China's one-child limit fails again
The Associated Press
BEIJING - China's controversial family planning policies have failed for the second straight year. The growing willingness of couples to defy the one-child limit threatens to send the population zooming out of control.
The Chinese government has estimated that to hold the country's population within the planned limit of 1.2 billion in 2000 and 1.5 billion in 2050, it must keep the birth rate below 1.5 percent. In 1986, the population was estimated to be slightly more than 1 billion.
But the birth rate hit 2 percent in 1986 and stayed there in 1987. If that pace is maintained, China's population will reach 2 billion by 2030.
The surge is fuelled largely by newly prosperous peasants who have enough money to pay government for breaking the one-child limit and to foreign incentives under the new economic reforms to observe the limit.
Since the breakup of communes in the early 1980s, families have been responsible for farming their own plots of land. More children to help plant and harvest means more profit.
Even urban residents, who surveys indicate are less eager than peasants to have large families, envy the ease with which newly rich peasants have been able to "buy" extra children.
Fines vary from region to region but generally amount to about $270 a year.
The average rural income is about $270 per couple, but annual family incomes of several times that amount are increasingly common.
City residents face not only fines but suspension from work for one or two years for having a second child.
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promised by other illnesses such as mononucleosis.
from getting pregnant, but they are not safe from these diseases."
Buck said one problem contributing to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases was that women got a false sense of security from taking birth control pills.
"I think people think that because they are on the pill, they are safe," he said. "They may be reactive safely
Buck said people should exercise caution in every sexual situation.
freezing it or by using a laser is just not telling the word," he said. "What really happens is we lower the amount of viral disease, and then the person's immune system takes over."
Buck added that even when the symptoms disappeared, they could recur. This happens most often when the immune system is being com-
"You can't tell by looking at somebody what they've got, no matter how upstanding they look," he said. "You don't know what they've got in terms of the capacity to transmit a sexually transmitted disease."
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