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REPUBLIC CITY A-4 The Arizona Republic Aug. 21, 1973 YI 7 7 7 7. rianioDurn more potent mows vaccine developed: WHO expert committee on these injections is recommended in any case where a per The annual number of reported deaths is not large. It girl's home backfires rames sua recommenas in-noculation not only with vac- 1.1 1 New York Times Service GENEVA A new rabies vaccine has been developed that is expected to greatly reduce the number of deaths from that dread disease, particularly in remote areas where it is a serious problem. The vaccine is sufficiently strong that one injection is as effective as a full 14- to 21- cine dui wiui uiuuu eiuiu containing antibodies against the rabies virus.

The committee is a 10-member body of which Dr. Hilary Koprow- ski, director of the Wistar son may have been bitten by a rabid animal, doctors are reluctant to undertake such a procedure unless they are convinced that the danger is real. The prolonged injections are time-consuming and unpleasant. A one-shot vaccine could be administered without hesitation and could be adminis was only 769 in 1971. However, the fatalities tend to occur in remote areas and it is estimated that from 5 to 10 unreported cases occur for every one that is registered.

About one million people undergo the multiple vaccination treatment each year. The new vaccine, developed at the so-called Reference Centers of the WHO, is being United Press International NEW YORK-A man identified by officials as Donald Anderson of New York City set fire to his girl friend's apartment Monday because he didn't want her to live there. iiisiuuie in iiiiaucipiua, is chairman. The serum innoculations' provide protection until the vaccine can stimulate the Klir in manuffintMra iio Mvn protective agents. However, shot series of the old vaccine, which must be administered daily for from two to three weeks.

The series requirement makes it extremely difficult to administer the old vaccine in regions where adequate medical facilities are often few and far between. The new vaccine was one of in the past much serum was derived from horses which sometimes produced severe reactions in the recipients. In ir tested in France, in the United States and in the Latin American countries. Its effectiveness has been demonstrated both in man and animals, according to Dr. Mohammed Abdussalam, chief of the veterinary Public Health Division of WHO.

However, further tests are planned before it is released for general use. In animal tests the subjects were infected with rabies and their protection by the vaccine was then demonstrated. tered to victims in remote -areas in a "hit and run" manner. The vaccine is produced in cells of human origin, known as diploid cells, that can be grown in great numbers and infected with rabies. The concentrated rabies virus is then killed.

However, when injected the killed virus induces the body to produce antibodies against the disease. The WHO Reference Centers where this work has been done are laboratories that help keep track of and identify viruses that threaten human health. The WHO provides the vaccine as well as a program, or protocol, for its testing. However, the tests are done under national guidelines for clinical experiments. In cases where a severe hite from a clearlv rabid ani 1971, for example, out of people receiving serum innoculations, 1,532 developed serum sickness.

It is now possible, however, to inject serum of human origin, virtually eliminating this problem where the human serum is available. It is obtained from the blood of volunteers who have been vaccinated against the disease. Because the old vaccination procedure is prolonged and unpleasant, the cost of such Only then, they said, did he notice there was no doorknob on the inside of the apartment door and he couldn't get out He wound up jumping out the first-floor window into a stone stairwell leading to the building's basement. When he was found laying there, he first claimed someone tried to kill him, but officials said he later admitted setting the fire. He was taken to a hospital where he was reported in critical condition with second and third degree burns.

He also had severe bruises and lacerations from falling on broken glass in the stairwell. The fire was quickly ex several recent advances in the war against rabies described in recent interviews here by specialists of the World Health Organization. Rabies, they said, has been spreading and is now firmly rooted in some elements of the animal population of most regions of the world. While one instance of recovery from the disease has been reported, it is generally regarded as invariably fatal unless vaccine or protective serum Js administered in time. Because of its mortality rate and the brain damage that it induces, the disease is one of the most feared of all In human tests, where such a risk to an individual's protection is impermissible, the blood of those vaccinated has been shown to be as fully equipped with defensive agents, or antibodies, against the disease as the blood of patients who were treated daily for 14 to 21 days.

Although the full course of serum is high and it is available primarily in advanced areas of the world. However, the new vaccine should make it far easier to find volunteers milliner in TnrnAanA iha canim mal has been sustained, the tinguished. Milling i jiiuuu 01 uiin Republic photo Dv nvio Leitnim The bones of "Jane Doe" lie in the county morgue, her cause of death still a mystery to the sheriff's homicide division. when rrccMioTOiOTOa ystery of hones in desert More about 1ST kt rviniy rmrryi At Park Central over 50 stores and shops assure you of all styled and "looks" of back-to-school fashions. Our convenient location and covered parking make it easier for you to get those good-looking clothes you'll be proud to send your kids to school in.

It's true that clothes Continued from Page A-l since we've got the room," Mrs. Miller -said, "we'll keep her." The bones wait to be claimed, though chances are they never 'vill. The skeleton was discovered by George Christofferson and his son, Ricky, on Dec. 31, 1969, while they hunted coyotes from a car in the Vulture Mountains, 11 miles south of Aguila, a town that straddles U.S. 60 between Phoenix and Los Angeles.

The bones, some lightly covered with earth, were scattered 250 yards up and down the wash. Pieces of clothing and a belt, from which the brass buckle appeared to have been ripped away, were found with the skeleton, 25 yards east of Eagle Eye Road. The site is about 20 miles southwest of Wickenburg and 70 miles northwest of Phoenix. Three searches by detectives failed to find personal belongings or jewelry, such as a wallet or a class ring, that might assist in identification. The bones themselves were examined microscopically.

There is nothing about them to indicate violence. "This is an intact skull with no evidence of fracture or other injury," the county medical examiner reported to the sheriff. The woman's teeth several showing where cavities had been filled with common dental silver provide the only solid evidence for identification. And they are useless unless matched with dental records. A Phoenix dentist, Dr.

Wilson C. Lath-rop, examined the woman's teeth, deduced "the victim was either wealthy or had been receiving free dental work, because the decayed areas that had been filled were not areas that would cause pain." Anthropologist Walter H. Birkby of the Arizona State Museum at Tucson examined the skeleton and ascertained that the woman was Caucasian, between 4-feet 10 and 5 feet -1, with shoulder -length brunette hair. Birkby decided the bones had been in the desert at least two months but not more than VA years. Scraps of apparel found with the bones were badly rotted.

However, authorities determined she had been clad in a green miniskirt and blouse when she died. No shoes were found. "Our initial investigation is always treated as a homocide until the death is proven a suicide, accidental or natural," said Detective Sgt. Edward J. Calles.

"If a parent came in and told us the name of her dentist, we'd be in business," Calles said. Authorities know the likelihood of this happening is remote almost like finding a needle in the haystack. The only other clue police have to go on is a drawing made by Barton Wright of the Museum of Northern Arizona, based on the configuratiion of the woman's skull. The caricature, lacking contrast and features, might fit the description of several hundred missing women. It is not much to go on.

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Battle against forest fires More about Continued from Page A-l ness and on future availability of their products from housing to paper towels. But they generally agreed there was little chance of any major commercial impact. A spokesman at Weyerhauser Co. cited 1970 National Forest Service figures showing better than 922 billion board feet of so-called "soft wood" timber-pine, fir and the like standing on commercial forest land in the Pacific Northwest alone. The figure excludes timber on National Forest and other lands which is used for commercial purposes, he noted.

"The fire loss over-all in national terms these days is relatively minor," the spokesman said. "That wasn't the case 30 or 40 years ago. But now you've got a better-informed public and better fire prevention. Today I'd say insect damage is probably more of a problem than fires." Whatever commercial impact might occur is only likely to show up over a period of years, noted Hal Siegworth, a forester with the National Forest Service at Seattle. Major fires, he said, can upset long-range cutting and growing plans.

Aircraft pressed into service against the Miles City fire dropped fire retar-dant on several ranch houses to protect them from nearby flames. Stanislaus National Forest near Yosem-ite National Park and a fire in the Eldorado National Forest northeast of Sacramento. Estimates on the total loss of timber are unavailable, Klade said, but the Stanilaus fire alone has consumed 28 million board feet enough for 2,800 three bedroom houses. That blaze threatened Yosemite ear-lier but a granite ridge kept flames from the park. However, two new fires broke out at midday Monday near Redding and in the Cleveland National Forest in the San Diego area.

Another serious situation continued in Montana, where the 4,960 acre Caribou Mountain fire in the Kootenai National Forest spread into Canada. Approximately 600 men were on the scene. Other Montana blazes included 1,100 acres in the Bitterroot National Forest; the Goat Creek blaze north of Missoula, the Tri Creek fire in the Lolo National Forest and the so-called Miles City complex a string of eight range fires that has blackened 40,000 acres. Officials in the forest products industry said it was too soon to measure the exact effect of the fires on their busi- 5 mountain fires controlled Come Ride with us and meet the friendliest people in the world, our customers. PHOENIX TRANSIT 253-6158 Where it all comes together.

For you lightning and rainstorm In the mountains Sunday. The largest fire blackened about 50 acres. Nearly 40 fire fighters, including 30 federal prisoners from the Swift Trail minimum security prison near Safford, fought the fires. 1 TUCSON (AP) Five lightning caused fires in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of here were controlled Monday, after burning a total of about 70 acres of brush-land. Coronado National Forest officials said the fires all broke out during a heavy CENTRAL NORTH OF THOMAS.