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6B Sunday, August 7, 2005 The Anniston Star Avian flu vaccine effective in testing BY LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN New York Times News Service WASHINGTON Government scientists say they have successfully tested in people a vaccine that they believe can protect against the avian influenza that is spreading in birds through Asia and Russia. Health officials have been racing to develop a vaccine because they worry that if that strain mutated and combined with a human influenza virus tocreate a new virus. it could spread rapidly through the world. (The vaccine cannot lead to such a situation because it is made from killed virus.) Tens of millions of birds have died from infection with the virus and culling to prevent the spread of the virus.

About 100 people have been infected. and about 50 have died from this strain of the avian influenza virus. called A(H5N1). So far there has been no sustained human-to-human transmission. but that is what health officials fear, because it could cause a pandemic.

And that fear has driven the intense research to develop a vaccine. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, said that while the vaccine that has undergone preliminary tests could be used on an emergency basis if a pandemic developed.

it would still be several months before that vaccine is tested further and, if licensed. offered to the public. "It's good news." he said. "We have a vaccine." But he cautioned: We don't have all the vaccine we need to meet the possible demand. The critical issue now is.

we make enough vaccine, given the well-known inability of the vaccine industry to make enough In 1 recent interviews. Fauci has said that tests so far have shown that the new vaccine produced a strong immune response among the small group of healthy adults under age 65 who volunteered to receive it. although the doses were higher than in the standard influenza vaccine offered each year. As low-carb wanes, demand surges for starch BY STACEY BURLING Knight Ridder Newspapers PHILADELPHIA Bread is back especially if it's whole grain or you can call it "artisanal." Potato and pasta sales are up, too. Along with the bankruptcy last weekend of Atkins Nutritionals the renewed sales of forbidden foods are evidence that the -carb craze is over.

In its wake, food experts said, is a lingering "carb awareness" and interest in nutrition that is driving demand for whole grains and natural foods. "Whole grain is a huge phenomenon in bread products right now," said Nan Redmond, communications director for Pepperidge Farm, a division of Camden, N.J.-based Campbell Soup Co. Laterthis month, the company will start selling wholegrain Goldfish, followed by wholegrain cinnamon and cinnamon-raisin breads in September. Low-carbohydrate diets such as Atkins favor meat, eggs and green vegetables over white bread. pasta and fruit.

Stuart Press British Foreign Minister Robin Cook addresses the 54th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in this 1999. Cook, ally who became a critic of Prime Minister Blair, has died. FUNERALS TODAY Marie J. Lang, 2PM, Crestwood Funeral Home Chapel Thomas S. Leonard, 3PM, Cornerstone Fellowship Church Katie J.

Richardson, 3PM, Usrey Funeral Home Chapel Wayne R. Terry, 2PM, Benefield Funeral Home Chapel Geneva F. Willingham, 1PM, Forestlawn Gardens Cemetery Adams MUSCADINE Services for Johnny Adams, 48, of Muscadine, AL will be 2:00 p.m. Monday at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation from 5-8 p.m.

this evening at the funeral home. Brown ANNISTON Services for Lorene Brown, 41, of Anniston, Al. will be announced by Anniston Funeral Services. Mrs. Brown died Saturday, August 6, 2005 at her residence.

Dean TALLADEGA Graveside rites for Zola Tumlin Dean, 82, will be 2:00 p.m. Monday at Pine Hill Memorial Park Visitation from 6-8 p.m. tonight at Usrey Funeral Home, Talladega, AL. Dunn ROANOKE Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Birdsong Dunn, 91, of Roanoke, AL will be 11:00 a.m.

Monday from Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel. Visitation from 5-8 p.m. this evening. Haynes OXFORD Graveside services for Mrs. Etta Mae Butterworth Haynes, 77, of Oxford will be Monday at 11 a.m.

at Coldwater Baptist Church Cemetery with Rev. Buddy Nelson officiating. The family will receive friends this afternoon from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs.

Haynes died Saturday at Regional Medical Center in Anniston. Survivors are her children, Peggy Ann Haynes Hildreth husband John of Birmingham, Claude "Butch" Food producers who were cast aside while consumers experimented with bacon and eggs are cheering the change. on the comeback," said Luke Marano, chairman of Philadelphia Macaroni Co. It is possible, some experts said, that America's notoriously faddish approach to dieting may be giving way to a more reasoned attitude. "I think consumers are sort of burning out or are skeptical of fad' diets and are beginning to understand that the most sensible way to long-term weight control is to balance," said Bob Goldin, executive vice president of Technomic a food-industry research firm in Chicago.

Harry Balzer, vice president of NPD Group, a marketing-information company in Port Washington, N. said he thought the lesson from the low-carb era was that people liked to try new stuff. "I think the legacy of this is that Americans aren't looking for the way to lose weight or the way to eat better," he said. "What they're looking for is the "new way to lose weight or eat better." Marcia Mogelonsky, senior research analyst at market researchers Mintel International, sees another fad on the horizon, but doubts it will take off in the United States until someone simplifies it. The glycemic index diet, based on how foods affect blood-sugar levels, is popular in England.

The drawback: "You need a Ph.D. in math to figure out how many points you need." Experts say some low-carb foods will survive, just like low-fat and low-salt foods. Kraft is betting that its 29 products based on the South Beach Diet, which eschews some of the same foods as Atkins, will be among them. It expects the line to bring in more than $100 million this year. On the other hand, it has stopped producing some CarbWell cookies, cereals and cereal bars.

People who track food trends say -carb dieting peaked in 2004. The evidence that people were radically changing their eating habits poured i into Philabundance, which provides food for the needy in the Philadelphia region. Donations of potatoes, pasta, frozen pretzels and other starchy foods soared, said Bill Clark, executive director. Former British foreign secretary Cook, fierce opponent of Iraq war, dies at 59 LONDON- -Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who quit Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet in 2003 to protest the Iraq war, died Saturday after collapsing on a Scottish mountain while walking with his wife. He was 59.

Scotland's Northern Constabulary said Cook collapsed on Ben Stack mountain in the Scottish Highlands. He was taken by coast guard helicopter to a hospital in Inverness. where he was pronounced dead. OBITUARIES IES BY JILL LAWLESS Associated Press all of Augusta, GA; two grandchildren, Sonoyia Williams, of Huntsville, AL, and Donna Ray Longshore, of Columbus, GA; one brother-inlaw, John Edward Morris, of Anniston; one sister-in-law, Naomi Grier, also of Anniston. Pallbearers will be friends of the family.

Mrs. Longshore was born in Roanoke, AL and was the second oldest of eight. She received her education in Randolph County and was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Augusta, GA. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Lucille Brown and Lois Swain; three broth- ers, Arthur Lee, William Emory and Ellis Ray Grier; her husband, George Longshore; one son, Eddie Leroy Longshore; and one daughter, Willa Ruth (Honey) Jordan.

McCurry OXFORD Anna Franzis- ka McCurry (Bonnie) passed away August 5, 2005 after an extended illness. In lieu of flowers please make a donation in her memory to the Alzheimer's Foundation. She was a longtime member of Antioch Baptist Church of Oxford. She was a "Pink-lady" at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center for 23 years. Mrs McCurry was born in Muhlheim a Main, Germany.

She is survived by William Douglas McCurry husband of 56 years. Kay McCurry Creed, daughter of Richmond VA. Pam McCurry Alderson and her husband Richard of Columbia, Al. Chris Collins, Capt. Jason Alderson, Anna Roth, Erika Bausum and Natham Sims, all grandchildren.

great grandchildren, three step-grandchildren and several family members in Germany also survive Mrs McCurry. Pallbearers will be family members. Funeral Services will be held 3:00 p.m. Monday, August 8, 2005 in the Miller Funeral Home Chapel with Tommy Reeves and Ronny Moore officiating. Burial will follow in the Forestlawn Gardens Cemetery.

The family will receive friends on from 4-6 p.m. today at Miller Funeral Home. Personal condolences may be written at: www.millerfuneralhomeoxford.com Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, filling in for a vacationing Blair, said Cook was "the greatest parliamentarian of his generation." "He also made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government," Prescott of said. Michael Howard, leader of the main opposition Conservative Party, said Cook's political contribution had been "immense." "He was a politician of principle who fought hard for the things he believed in," Howard said. Jack Straw, Cook's successor as Richardson TALLADEGA Funeral services.

for Katie Joe Richardson, 85, will be 3:00 p.m. today at Usrey Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Richardson died Friday, August 5th. Self CENTRE Graveside services for Cecil E.

Self, 81, will be 10:00 a.m. Monday at Palmetto Cemetery, Brunswick, GA. with Jordan Funeral Home in charge. Mr. Self died Wednesday.

Taft ANNISTON Annette Kevolic Taft, 60, died Thursday at Regional Medical Center in Anniston. No public services are planned. Survivors include her husband, William James Taft, three daughters; Kaemarie Eastman, Watertown, N.Y.,. Kimberly Hoffman, Fairless Hills, and Kelley Taft Brown, Jacksonville, a son, Brian Joseph Taft, Anniston, two step daughters, Barbara Taft and Cheryl Taft; a step son, Robert Taft; her mother, Stephanie Kevolic Seeber, Fairless Hills, four sisters, Karen Stroop, Nadine Pileggi, Paulette Norine volic, and Joh, all of six grandchildren, Rebecca Hoffman, Daniel Hoffman, Brian Joseph Taft, Robert Taft, Kaemarie Alice Cox and Danaroy Countryman; two great grandchildren, Lexxi Countryman and Michael Christopher Roberts, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph Kevolic and her grandparents, Frank and Anna Kohler.

Mrs. Taft was a devoted wife, mother and author and was a nurse for 30 years. K.L. Brown Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Jacksonville Townsend ALEXANDRIA Funeral, services for Angie Gosdin Townsend, 48, of Alexandria, Al. will be 2:00 p.m.

Monday at Anniston Memorial Funeral Home with Pastor Jonathan Pate officiating. Burial will be in Anniston Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Monday from 12 noon until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Townsend died Friday at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

secretary, said he was "devastated." "Robin and I had been good friends for nearly 30 years and that friendship survived our policy disagreements over Iraq," Straw said. "He was the greatest parliamentarian of his generation and a very fine foreign secretary. I deeply mourn his loss." Cook served as foreign minister in 1997-2001 before being demoted to leader of the House of Commons. His resignation speech, days before the Iraq war began in March 2003, received a rare standing ovation from lawmakers. Tony daughter, Ayona (B.J.) Colbert, of Anniston, AL; three sisters, Mable (Forest) Miles, of Buffalo, NY, Zelandria (Victor) Kimble, of Jacksonville, AL and Zelma (Aaron) Kirkland, of Anniston, AL; one brother, Mr.

Oscar D. Russell, of Detroit, MI; two grandchildren, Samalya Colbert and Xavier Colbert, of Anniston, AL; an uncle, Odell (Eudora) Russell, of Anniston, AL. Mrs. Laster was a graduate of Anniston High School Class of 1979 and had attended Gadsden State Business College. She served as manager at several restaurants in the area.

She was a member of Mount Calvary Baptist Church until she moved to Albany and joined First Monumental Faith Ministries. Her services included the Children's Church Ministry, Choir, and Hospitality Ministry. Mrs. Laster was preceded in death by her mother, Patsy Russell and her father, Edward Smith. Longshore AUGUSTA, GA Funeral services for Esther Lena Grier Longshore, 95, of Augusta, GA will be 11:00 a.m.

Monday at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Augusta with Rev. Thomas Walker officiating. Williams Funeral Home, Augusta, GA has charge of the arrangements. Mrs.

Longshore lie in state at the church one hour prior to services. Mrs. Longshore died Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at National Health Care in Anniston, AL. Survivors include two sisters, Eldora Magby and Alar Mae Morris, both of Anniston, AL; three faithful friends, Ruthie Jordan, Esther Giles and Dorothy Perkins, Survivors include her husband, Randy E. Townsend; her children, Nicholos E.

Townsend and Amanda Nicole Townsend and her grandson, Randy Braxton Townsend, all of Alexandria; her sister Virginia Vingers, of Oxford; her brother, Edward Gosdin, of Wedowee and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, D.C. and Hixie Gosdin. Mrs. Townsend was a former long time employee of Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center.

Anniston Memorial Funeral Home 3865 US Hwy 431 North Anniston, Alabama 36206 820-0024 Haynes and wife Theresa of Oxford, John Haynes and wife Diane of Huntsville, and Patrick Haynes and wife Vicki of Eastaboga; one sister, Mae Smith of Oxford; grandchildren, Amber and Amanda Hildreth, Bethany and Lindsey Haynes, Windy Pelzer, Jessica Lynn, April Malcolm, and Matthew and Chris Haynes; six great grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Fred Haynes, Larry Stephens, Jeff Smith, Jimmy Smith and James Hill. Mrs. Haynes was a resident of Oxford for most of her life and was a Baptist. She was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion.

She is preceded in death by her husband, John D. Haynes and her daughter, Patricia Darlene Haynes. Personal condolences may be sent to the family at: www.millerfuneralhomeoxford.com Haynes PIEDMONT Funeral services for William Haynes, 64, of Piedmont, Al. will be 2:00 p.m. Monday at Jordan Funeral Chapel with burial at Gnatville Cemetery.

Mr. Haynes died Friday. Laster ALBANY, GA Graveside services for Cassandra Decarlo Russell Laster, 44, (formerly of will Anniston) of Albany, GA be 1:00 p.m. Monday at Anniston Memorial Gardens in Anniston, AL with Elliott Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Mrs.

Laster died Tuesday at her residence in Albany. Survivors include her husband John T. Laster, of Albany, GA; one son, Antwan Russell, of Albany, GA; one Anniston Star Obituary Policy It is the policy of The Anniston Star to publish obituaries of local residents and former local residents. Obituaries must be submitted by funeral homes. Obituaries are not accepted from family members or friends of the deceased.

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