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The grade six school children are soon to receive their third and last hepatitis B booster vaccines. Hepatitis B is one of five viruses that can infect the liver

These viruses have been con. veniently called Hepatitis A, B C, D, and E. Péople who become infected with Hepatitis A, D, or E do not usually get chronic liver disease

These last two viruses are not very common in Canada. They are mainly seen in travelers to third world countries. People can Swallow the virus by eating unwashed food and drinking con taminated water.

The health authorities advise that travelers to parts of Asia and

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Hepatitis B and C are a differ ent story. A person cannot be infected with Hepatitis B or C viruses by eating contaminated {pod. The viruses enter the bedy through blood products or through sexual intercourse, The ¥iruses grow in the liver cells The body responds by killing the liver cell. This damages the liver. When enough liver cells are dam. aged the person becomes jaun diced and so looks yellow. They are often'feverish and feel nau seous.

Following the initial infection the majority of patients will get better (95 per cent). Most will not

go on to chronic hepatitis Only a few (five per cent) get chronic ongoing infection.

In these people the body does not destroy all the infected liver cells, so some viruses remain Someone with chronic Hepatitis is not necessarily very ill. They may have mild damage to the liver only and so have no symp toms. Occasionally they may have ongoing damage leading eventually to a severely scarred liver, ca}led cirrhosis. A small number of patients with chronic ongoing liver damage can get liver cancer.

Although all blood is screened for Hepatitis B and C (and AIDS) before it is used, People who

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have been diagnosed with Hep- atitis should not donate blood The viruses are also transmitted through sexual intercourse. Any one having casual sex is advised to use a condom to protect

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stick injuries. So too are close household contacts where a fami- ly member may accidently come in contact with infected blood. Therefore, family members should all be immunized.

Health care workers, and those in dentistry are at risk for coming into contact with infect- ed blood through their job They should all be immunized. Babies are at msk if the mother has chronic Hepatitis. All preg- nant women are screened for H B. If her test is posi-

against all sexually transmitted diseases, including Hepatitis and AIDS.

People with Hepatitis B or C cannot pass the infection to oth- ers by simple daily contact, How- ever, medical and nursing personnel are at risk from needle

tive her baby will be immu- nized.

The vaccine against Hepatitis B consists of just a piece of the virus. The piece is cultured in a laboratory and is never the whole virus. People cannot get Hepatitis B from these vaccines. The piece of the virus is inject-

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The body then makes protec- tive antibodies against that piece of the virus. If the immunized person then comes in contact with the full virus their antibod- ies recognize the piece and destroy the whole virus before it can infect the liver cells.

The rare side effects from the vaccine include a bit of redness and swelling around the injection site. People have complained of fever, aching, tiredness, and a rash. Most reactions are not seri- ous and the vaccine is quite safe, The vaccine cannot cause Hep- atitis,

By immunizing the grade six population it is hoped that within a generation all young adults will be immune to Hepatitis. This is hoped to stop the spread of the disease through sexual contact.

Golfing in the "Sugar City"

As spring approaches, the days grow longer, and our thoughts, inevitably, turn to golf! I am an extremely poor golfer, but I do love the game. I have huge obsta- cles to overcome. However, con- sidering my initiation to the game, perhaps there may be valid reasons why I am such a duffer.

We spent almost two years liv- ing in the Fiji Islands, in Lauto- ka, the “Sugar City” on the western shores of Viti Levu, the second largest of 332 islands in the Fiji Group. Lautoka is also a port city with a protected harbor. Fiji Sugar Company maintains their sugar loading dock, the Japanese were adding a fish load- ing dock, and we were there to build a sawmill and a chip load- ing dock.

The population of Lautoka is spread out along the harbor, with the residential areas ranging up the folded hillsides. The harbor, Nadi International Airport and the International Resorts, of Den-

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erau Beach lie to the south, ‘the numerous resort islands to the west, the towns of Ba and Raki- taki to the north, and surrounded on three sides by Indian and Fijian villages.

re were a dozen Canadian engineers assigned to the pine mill project. The wives had been

employed in Canada but, with high unemployment in the islands, spouses were not granted work permits and, in fact, we were restricted from volunteer work as well. Most succumbed to the pressures to employ Fijian household help so, with time on our hands, many of us turned to The Northern Club for swim- ming, tennis and racquet ball, bridge afternoons and, of course, golf

I bought a set of well-used clubs froma lady considerably smaller than I, which should have Tung a bell but did not. The Lau- toka Golf Club boasted no golf professional so “clinics” were held to “teach” the novices. We learned Australian and New Zealand Rules, which are based on the British, and we newcom- ers soon learned all the “teach-

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ers” bad habits, and added a few of our own.

I cannot adequately express the depths of frustrations and depression I experienced in learning just to hit the ball, except perhaps to someone who has been there! Just learning to keep my head down took me weeks! I struggled on, deter- mined to learn to play golf.

I realized that the Lautoka Golf Course had a few features that were not conducive to this venture. Standing at No. | Tee, you had to ignore the incredible view, the lumpy fairway, the Steep slopes to both left and right, the wild treed rough on both sides, and three gullies, before the tiny green on the farthest tini- est steep hill.

It was weeks before I could even approach the green! I call it “green” but it was hardly that. Greens are difficult to keep that way in the winter because of southeast tradewinds that blow from May through October. While this is the most pleasant time to visit the South Pacific, the drier conditions turn soil into something close to concrete

The course itself consisted of very hilly, rough terrain. The fairways, hardly “fair”, resem- bled a cow pasture and, indeed, since villagers bordering the course, tethered cows and goats on them, there were unpre- dictable hazards.

On one Club Championship Day, when matched with a woman mach more proficient than I, my sharp, true drive, straight up the middle, bounced to the right, hit a rock, dribbled on down the right slope to the edge where it came to rest just inside tall grass. A cow grazing there promptly walked over and ate it!

When we had stopped laugh- ing sufficiently to move, we walked up to the cow who was calmly chewing on my ball. Not fearing animals, I gave it a sharp rap on the nose. It spat out my saliva-covered ball, which rolled downhill into a hole! We dug out our Rule Books and looked up appropriate sections but could find nothing remotely close to the situation.

The Match Captain ruled I could take relief by dropping my ball within two club lengths, no closer, to the pin! After I had wiped the ball clean with my towel, I did so and it positioned itself quite nicely on a tuft of grass. I took my six iron and Placed my ball directly and neatly into a field of sugarcane! No one was more surprise than I when the match actually went to 20 holes. Of course my oppo- nent won! My sister, an avid golfer, when she visited, deci: the course lay and we went snorkeling instead!

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Today I am at a loss. Yes, a loss for words or subjects to write about. Sometimes that iust hap: pens, apparently labeled ‘writ er's block”. So don’t mind me, I'm just going to “wing it”.

As you've probably noticed, most Of my columns although laced with a touch of humor carry

Serious and at times subtle sages, This brings me to won der why on earth I am having diffi culty coming up with a “mind twister” for this week.

I realize that for some reason or other I have decided to shut down my brain, Yes, I know it happens to the best of us. I know I have bragged extensively about my self- awareness in recent years. Howev- er, there are just a few things I obviously do not want to be aware of at this time

It may have something to do with the workload I've created for myself both domestically and in my business. My self expectations are evidently very high.

My whole family seems to be suffering the “brain dead” syn- drome of late. For the two oldest children, “A” and “R”, it comes more naturally of course but usual- ly we are not all that way at the same time

The new baby probably has triggered the most of it. For exam- ple “R's” bedroom is adjoirning the “monster baby’s room which, now that I think of it, used to be “R's” Room. (Nose out of joint). And when little brother screams for any length of time at night, guess who wakes up too? So to solve this problem, we decided to

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