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MONTREAL (CP) — A few months ago, Sarah Savary: Desta, who will be two in October, fell seriously ill with a disease that strikes at least one in every 400 Canadian children under the age of five. @ Sarah's fever soared to a dangerous 41.7 degrees and she became so listless that her mother, Rosalind, began to think the unthinkable. _ "Thad my doubts the first few days that she'd make it,” Rosalind said. “She was lifeless. She didn't recognize me.” Sarah had bacterial meningitis. The disease is an infection of the meninges, the mem branes that cover-the brain and the spine. It can kill within a day or two if left untreated. BACTERIA CAUSE It is caused primarily by bacteria called hemophilus. influenza type B — or Hib — and is the leading eause of non genetically determined mental retardation in North America. Sixteen Canadian children died from the disease in 1984, the latest figures available from the federal Health Department. Two-thirds of those who get bacterial meningitis are under the age of two; only 10 per cent are ae five ‘Meningitis is such a horrible disease because it kills so quickly’ The bacteria can also cause epigiottitis — swelling of the cartilage at the base of the tongue that can cause death by suffocation — and a number of other serious illnesses, di arthritis and yelitis (i tion of bones). NOW VACCINE In a flurry of publicity, a vaccine against the bacteria was released for the first time in Canada in April, several months after it had been licensed for use in the United States. It is the first vaccine against a major childhood disease that has been created in more than 20 years —~ the last was a vaccine against measles in 1962 — and experts heralded the development as an important medical breakthrough “Meningitis is such a horrible disease because it kills so quickly and can leave survivors so severely handicapped,” says Dr. Margaret Hunter, Quebec director of the Canadian Pediatrie Society. About five per cent of those who get bacterial meningitis die, while another 25 to 40 per cent end up with serious permanent after-effects, including retardation and deafness, Hunter said. The rest are cured with no lasting effects. NO UNDER TWO The main drawback to the vaccine has been that it is only effective for children over the age of two. This means that only one-third of all meningitis cases can be prevented, Hunter said Some U.S. psychiatrists sexually abuse patients Contrary to some parents’ fears, adverse reactions to the vaccine are uncommon and “generally not severe,” said Dr. Stanley Acres, a federal Health Department official. They range from soreness around the injection site to a mild fever. The pediatric society recommends that the vaccine be made compulsory for every child over the age of two. As well, the society is pressing provincial governments to pay for the vaccinations. ‘The vaccine, which ecsts about $15 to $20 per injection, is not covered by medicare in any province. Medical experts expect it will take the provinces at least another year to add it to their programs. “I guess it's a question of finding the money and juggling the budgets,” Hunter said LIST INCOMPLETE Meanwhile, no one knows for sure whether the number of cases of meningitis is on the increase. Reporting the disease only became compulsory for doctors a few years ago and it is still haphazard at best, Hunter said. Acres said 419 cases of bacterial meningitis were reported in Canada last year, 90 per cent of them in children under five. But Hunter said that “1,000 cases is a fairly con servative estimate of the number of meningitis cases in Canada.” Often, hospitals treat meningitis patients and send them home without reporting it, she said. And some experts fear that the disease may be on the rise. The Hib bacteria is commonly found in the nose and throat of children from the age of six months on — often causing no ill effects — and some doctors suspect that day-care centres may be contributing to the spread of the disease. Until the advent of day care, it was uncommon for so many very young children to spend so many hours together in close, confined quarters, Acres and Hunter said. Naturally, those conditions will contribute to the spread of certain diseases, including meningitis. WAS LUCKY Sarah seems to have been lucky. But even after the meningitis bacteria was killed with intensive doses of antibiotics during a 11-day stay in hospital, Rosalind Savary-Desta was worried about possible after-effects. A neurologist had told her one of Sarah's legs was not responding to stimuli and that she might be deaf. However, Sarah seems to have bounced back from the ordeal and the only tell-tale sign of the meningitis is a slight limp in one leg. Her hearing now is excellent Although it is impossible to determine where Sarah got the disease, doctors told Savary-Desta that her child probably caught it at a day-care centre from another child who was carrying the bacteria but was immune to it No other child at the centre had meningitis, but one youngster did contract osteomyelitis, another Hib disease. He, too, appears to have recovered However, Savary-Desta and her husband have taken Sarah out of the day-care centre because they are afraid she might get meningitis again. BOSTON (AP) — Here's a strategy for long life> Avoid - the elevator and take the stairs. Each step climbed could increase your life span by about four seconds. y their calculations are some- what tongue-in-cheek. But their estimate is meant to inderscore the belief that exercise, even something as mundane as hoofing it up stairs, is good for health. The benefits of stair climbing are the subject of a dizzying routine of mathe- matical gymnastics per formed by doctors Brent Petty and David Herrington and published as a letter in the New England Joyrnal of Medicine. Their calculations ate sup- plemented with a bit of re- seach conducted in the stair. wells of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, but they are based largely on a recently pub- lished study demonstrating the good effects of moderate exercise throughout adult- hood. The author of the earlier report admits doubts about the stair-walking figures but nonetheless urges the doc tors to keep climbing. The letter was a response to a study by Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger of Stanford that was conducted on almost 17,000 Harvard graduates and published last March in the New England Journal. Those researchers found that men who burned up 2,000 calories a week in such activities as walking, sports or stair climbing had death rates one-quarter to one- third lower than the least active people in the study. A man who starts exercising this way at age 35 and keeps it up through age 80 will live more than two years longer PLAZA SuperValu '¢ Western Conedion Company Open for Your Shopping Convenience Bnew 9f Wa. special k feature Foremost * Canada grade A medium Cloverleaf sockeye salmon asym special ¢ this week only Kroft macaroni & cheese dinner..s,.... special e this week only Capri ¢ white bathroom tissue droit spec ] ¢ this week only Dairymaid * from frozen con. ry BOSTON (AP) — Six per American Journal of Psy Some studies have con cent of psychiatrists in the chiatry, is the first country. cluded that sexual contact United States have had wide survey takeninthe U.S. with psychotherapists is bad sexual relations with their on sexual relations between for patients, who frequently re patients and many contend psychiatrists and their suffer depression and dis lla.m.-5 p.m. apple the affairs benefit those they patients. trust other therapists. juice treat, suggests anew survey. The researchers sent _ R| . p ] A EC ] special @ this week only Sexual contact between questionnaires to 5,574 psy » psychotherapists and their chiatrists randomly selected ry es | ANGLICAN CHURCH FULL GOSPEL ece a0! Columbia Ave. FELLOWSHIP evaporated patients is widely considered from the files of the Ameri Sunday Services (A.C.0.P.) to be unethical. It is con- can Medical Association demned by the American They were promised their CALVARY BAPTIST 8:00a.m.810:00.n. | —$—_—$—_——— milk Rev. Charles Balfour Below Castleaird Plaza 385 mi tin 2 Aarpensung 2 4) v4 4 voyOuysem sjoods peeeny ery eu) S pojaoym-0014) S104 snoqoun JONVAWIT 8S78-Zr9-008-1 NOLDILN3d “LS LNIWNY3AO09 Szez PIT/BIIPIWVsey Avgunuve @ eynig voIDUIYSR NA 18 Psychiatric Association and answers would be kept con forbidden by the Hippocratic _fidential. oath that outlines proper. One-quarter of them, or conduct for doctors. 1,442 doctors, returned the 87 NBCI0D @ (ts) Ame 00 ‘Oey AL SunL-PID Pjopewed,, pus vor ULL WR monvonul eu, WH monnserui TIVELOOd TAN @ co'” AL ~~) We BUD YO, MON WO! 0} vendee iyow Aq seouep o0K8 2 j $ wweig Aq peieon 8189-2061, vom ‘Tivai0os 140 10) 3 x (a) “Younus yendeg S.NVLLVYD NOL BemeiQ wo. oe Tivessve Ta WO Og HUM 0882145 Ve Sher eng owo, © pue Woy ith Au seyodes \8/80j0020; Ol “ides ‘Aopsoupem 04 yBnosys y “deg ‘Aopsuny) 7 NL =) Awe TANLLN3S LIN But in a survey by doctors from Harvard-affiliated hos. pitals, seven per cent of the male psychiatrists and three per cent of the female psychiatrists who responded acknowledged having sex with their patients. A third of these doctors said they have had sex with more than one patient. “There seems to be a group of offenders who are abusing a series of patients and are at potentially great risk to patients and are not being apprehended in any way,” said the study's director, Dr. Nanette Gartrell of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. “It's quite disturbing.” The study, published in the September issue of the questionnaires. “The big problem with the survey is that they are dealing with a very small return, so it’s difficult to know how much reliability it has,” said Dr. William Webb, chairman of the psychiatric association's ethics commit ee. He added: “If the mag nitude is as they report it, we clearly have a problem. But my impression is that the vast majority of psychiatrists practice in an ethical man ner.” However, Gartrell said the findings probably understate the problem, since many of fenders are probably reluc tant to admit to sexual affairs. 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