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Thursday, January 27, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Staff Renorter
Flu vaccines hog shelves
Bv DEBI MORROW
Close to 447,000 doses of swine flu vaccine are stacked in the 165 county health departments or sit on refrigerator shelves (which they do not). No one knows what will happen to them.
"At this time the inoculation program is in a holding status," Robert French, assistant director of general epidemiology for the Kansas Department of Health, said yesterday. The study is untainted by dependence on actual trauma to be disease and the Carter administration."
French said Kansas initially had been allocated a little more than one million doses and had inoculated about 533,000 when the program was stopped in December.
ABOUT 37 per cent of all Kansas received the shot, he said. Slightly more than 17,000 Douglas County residents, including University of Kansas students, were inoculated, according to Janet Henry, flu doctor at the Douglas County Health Department.
the mass inoculation program was funded by the federal government. Approximately $135 million was appropriated
rationally for the development, purchase and administration of the vaccine.
French said he thought the program could be reinstated for high-risk people—those most susceptible to the flu—particularly older than 85 or those who have developed a chronic illness. He would be done until the U.S. Public Health Service recommended such action.
- 'EVEN A SMALL risk has to be questioned when the disease risk is not'
- 'evident.'
Only four cases of swine flu are known in the United States right now, French said. The program was stopped in December because of the association of the vaccine to Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which causes paralysis.
"The risk of the syndrome is quite small—about one case to every 100,000 to 200,000 doses given." French said. "But the flu cases are very small in number, too."
ne vaccine won't expire biologically until the end of 1977, French said, and the National Health Department then will have to decide what to do about the program.
BUT DOCTORS who have the swine flu vaccine can still give it if they think it is safe.
"They would be doing so against the recommendations of the Public Health Service but wouldn't be in any violation," French said. "If a physician chooses to do so, he may. We don't recommend it. They have never protected through national liability."
French said he agreed with the decision to institute the program and with the decision to change.
"You can't predict the future of epidemics," he said. "We were and are ready if an epidemic breaks out, but right now the risks outweigh the benefits."
HE SAID THE program had its disappointments and problems, like the question of federal liability and the short supply of health care. He said that health departments did a beautiful job.
He said the program proved that in cases of a national emergency, health officials would have to intervene.
"We aren't out of the woods yet because flu season is not over and the danger of swine flu could run as late as March," French said.
"Communicable diseases are constantly in a state of flux. I just glad to know we have this technology."
Reproductions of famous paintings and original prints will be available to students through the SUA Picture Lending Library or by appointment at the Jawahry foot of the Kansas Union.
The library rents artwork to students for one semester for a small fee based on the worth of the pieces, Howard Collinson, SUA fine arts chairman, and Tuesday.
Common sum that although some art-
work rented for up to $8 a semester, most could be rented for either 75 cents or $3. A can rent can no more than three pictures.
About 100 pictures, valued from $5 to $80,
will be rented on a first come-first serve
basis, he said. Last semester 50 students
rented pieces.
Picture library to rent art today
The rental fees are used to purchase new prints and to replace works that are stolen
"We just want whatever we have on new prints," Collinson said. "If things don't rent well during the previous semester, then we had to go back and buy a bad problem in the past in renting."
Pictures come from visiting art galleries and display artwork in the Union through the museum.
The exhibitors, Collinson said, are charged a display fee that is a percentage of
their artwork sales. The fee is paid in merchandise.
"If the gallery owes $60, then we can take $60 worth of prints." Collinson sad.
If a student loses a picture, he must pay the total cost of the picture and its frame, he said, and if a print or painting isn't returned, the student's name is turned over to the business office and the debt is handled like a library fine or parking ticket, so that the student can't enroll or obtain copies of his transcript.
Collinson said that a few prints rented last semester haven't been returned but that they could be.
one picture lending library also will give two $30 purchase awards at the Student Print and Drawing sale, Feb. 24 in the Union lobby.
Three art history undergraduates will select the two best prints on display at the sale and the works will be added to the catalog. The exhibition will be part of the Acute the Arts program.
Smokers kick habit while earning credit
By CHUCK WILSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas' first class on how to quit smoking met in the
E. D. Glover, assistant professor of health education, teaches the class, Smoking and Health: Topic and Laboratory, which he co-directs with Dr. D. candidate in counseling, designed.
About 40 students are enrolled in the program that they are a grant from the American Cancer Society.
Glover said he had hoped for an enrollment of more than 40 people.
Glover said many people opposed the course because they thought either that credit shouldn't be given for quitting drugs or that it is wrong to encourage people to quit smoking.
"We weren't in the catalog, so people had to learn about us by word of mouth," he said. "If we'd been in the catalog we could have had 300 easily."
He said others thought that there wasn't enough academic content in a smoking class offered for two credits and that the class was being used as a research project.
Glover said those charges weren't true,
and she was soon succeeded in succeeding
with Simpson, who had failed.
Glover said most programs for getting smokers to quit worked two or three times.
His program, Glover said, would work because it wasn't completed in just a couple of weeks. It won't end at the close of the semester.
Students who wish to may remain in the program as long as 20 years, and every few months Glover will check with them to see whether they are smoking. They can quit at any time.
The relationship between class members will be close, Glover said, and students will be able to understand concepts better.
"They'll do everything together, and they'll form a group loyalty," he said.
A buddy system and a hotline will be set so those craving cigarettes can call us.
The course isn't only for the smoker who wants to quit but it's also for interested non-smokers. Glover said non-smokers could learn from the program, because he planned to teach them to be more assertive and people to stop smoking when it bothered them.
If the course is effective, the American Cancer Society will increase its funding, he said. And if the program is successful, the country could be saved by caring around the country. Glover said.
If that happens, Glover and Hull would travel around the country setting up a camp.
"Once this takes off there will be really no way of stoping it," Glover said.
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