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HEALTH & WELL-BEING By Dr. Maria Motyl MS: THE CANINE CONNECTION Multiple sclerosis is a disease that at tacks mainly white affluent people be tw een the ages of 20 and 40, affecting more women than men. It occurs primari ly in colder climates in specific band pat terns around the globe. Northern U.S. is considered a high-risk area with about 50 to 70 cases per 100,000 people. In the disease process of MS, the m yelin (fatty) sheath of certain nerves is progressively destroyed, leading to neu rologic complications. The disease fol lows an unpredictable course in that many patients suffer few relapses while in others, the course of the disease is swift and unrelenting. It has long been postulated that an infectious agent is responsible for MS. People who move from a high-risk area to a low-risk area acquire the low risk of their new location and vice versa. How ever, if the move occurs after the age of 15, the person keeps the risk level of the previous area of residence. Further more, patients with MS have a high level of antibody to measles virus and several other viruses. Recently, doctors have come upon another intriguing possibility, involving canine distemper virus that af fects dogs. Doctors studied 39 families in New Jersey where more than one family mem ber had MS. When compared to a control group of healthy people who had been childhood friends of the MS victims it was found that those with the MS were more likely to have had small indoor dogs in the five years prior to the diagnosis of MS. A n even more interesting epidemiologic study has been made in the Shetland and Orkney Islands off Scotland, which have a higher rate of MS than anywhere else in the world. In con trast, the nearby Faroe Islands have had no MS cases, except for 24 after World War II. The climate, diet and population of all of these islands are the same. In studying the cases further, how ever, it was found that dogs are very com mon in the Shetlands and Orkneys, and canine distemper epidemics are frequent. The Faroe Islands, on the other hand, have a strict ban on importing dogs, which kept the native dog population free of infection. During the war, British officers brought dogs to the Faroes, which touched off an epidemic of canine distemper. Several years later, 24 cases of MS appeared in the Faroes. These findings,while preliminary and as yet inconclusive, shed an interesting light on MS. One plan that doctors have is to vaccinate dogs against distemper in an area where MS is common. If the theory is correct, MS should then begin to disap pear in that area in five to ten years. 'AIDS' EPIDEMIC STUDIED In the last 18 months the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta have been compiling statistics on a deadly new illness that has primarily affected homo sexual men. The acquired immunodefi ciency syndrome, or AIDS, as the disease is now called, produces a suppression of the body’s natural defenses that is so pro found that the stage is set for the development of a rare cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma, a rare parasitic pneu monia, and a myriad of other infections in the AIDS victim. 6 eggs (separate) 1 cup sugar 1 cup honey (heat till melted) 1 cup vegetable oil 1 cup strong coffee (melt 2 tea spoons instant coffee in 1 cup hot water, cool) ЗУг cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda rind of one orange 1 teaspoon of cinamon 1 teaspoon cloves '/2 cup walnuts Since the time that the CDC began studying this disease, AIDS has struck 547 people in the U.S., with a mortality rate of about 40 percent. So far the number of deaths from AIDS is more than the number from toxic shock syndrome and Legionnaire’s disease combined. What alarms doctors about AIDS is that the incidence is rising (two to three cases per day), and that the epidemic seems to have spread to some other seg ments of the U.S. population. At this point 75 percent of the AIDS victims are homosexual men, 25 percent are intra venous drug abusers, 6 percent are Haitian immigrants and less than 1 per cent are hemophiliacs. The percentages total more than 100 percent because some groups overlap. Of the victims of AIDS, only a very small percentage are women. Women victims of AIDS are either drug abusers or Haitians. Researchers believe that AIDS is probably caused by a thus-far unidenti fied infectious agent. To this end the CDC is culturing tissue specimens from AIDS victims and have injected them into a variety of animals. So far, the attempts have not been successful. It should, however, be remembered that a similar medical mystery surrounded the Legion naire’s disease outbreak, yet with perseverance and some good luck that microorganism was identified. Beat egg yolks with sugar until light yellow; add in following order: oil, honey, coffee and flour in thirds ending with flour. (Flour should be mixed with baking powder, soda and spices.) Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into batter, stirring well. Add chopped walnuts. Grease two loaf pans; line with greased wax paper and divide batter proportionately. Bake in preheated (35) oven for 45-55 minutes. CHRYSTYNA NAWROCKYJ TRADITIONAL HONEY CAKE Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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