Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july 1987 scientists probe aids infection via mosquitoes preliminary findings fail to link insect transmission of virus by Ronald Kotulak Chicago Tribune Chicago in a bid to squelch fears about Mosquito bites and to be on guard against any potentially dangerous new turn in the spread of Federal scientists Are investigating if mosquitoes can transmit the aids what they have found so far is reassuring d population including some in areas where both aids and mosquitoes Are have failed to find a connection Between Mosquito bites and transmission of the almost every Case of aids can be traced to sexual inter course and intravenous drug d Laboratory experiments Simu lating Mosquito transmission of aids have shown that while mosquitoes fed blood containing Copi Ous amounts of the virus will have the virus in their bodies for at least 48 the virus does not appear to multiply in the when infected mosquitoes were Given healthy human White blood cells to feed they were hot Able to transmit the virus to these although White cells Are the Normal target of the possible in theory theres nothing to support the role of mosquitoes transmitting the virus to said Howard a member of the nation Al cancer Institute team that is participating in the these findings dont eliminate the theoretical possibility that a Mosquito could infect but its not Likely to the premature release of mos Quito research information last week stirred up some controversy and created Public but the studies Are experts and no findings have yet reported in medical the centres for disease control in which oversees a major part of the governments acquired immune deficiency was Quick to Point out that the new research did not provide any Evi Dence for Mosquito this is just a new wrinkle to an old Story that keeps cropping up and probably will continue to crop up every said Gayle a cd doubts linger but not All scientists Are con Caroline Macleod of the Institute of tropical Medicine in North one of the two Florida groups that asked Institute to study still insists that bloodsucking insects can pass the virus on to especially in poor communities where people have a lot of other if you can get the virus from Needle Sticks and blood Transf its naive not to believe that transmit the virus with she mosquitoes Are Mother natures flying Macleod that it is very difficult to become infected from an accidental Jab with a by which contains a much greater amount of blood than a aids destroys the body immune system and leaves it Vulner Able to a variety of potentially fatal to the great major Ity of the victims have been Homo bisexuals and intravenous the premature release of research data sparked fears that drug users who share and people who have sex with mosquitoes can transmit about 70 i different types of disease causing 1 viruses to including those that cause yellow Dengue fever and but these viruses multiply in while the aids virus apparently does noted Gary aids coordinator for the National institutes of health in scientists at the cacs insect Laboratory at fort injected the aids virus into mosquitoes and bedbugs and found that the virus could neither grow nor replicate in these they also were unable to show that these artificially infected mosquitoes could pass the virus 09 to healthy blood it is extremely unlikely that a Mosquito biting a person infected with the aids virus will ingest a blood cell containing the Noble Only about one out of every several Hundred thousand White blood cells contains the and a Mosquito takes in a very Small number of these he mosquitoes can spread aids so no one has been Able to find living aids viruses in mosquitoes obtained from areas where aids is such As Central Noble some French Howe have claimed to find pieces of the virus in mosquitoes and other insects in but their results Are regarded As and the French investigators emphasize that epidemiological studies clearly show that mosquitoes do not serve As a vector for transmitting the disease in funding shortage hurts Grad report says v a Lack of government funding left graduate programs at 14 University of Mani Toba an internal University report the prepared for the universities Grants said the University has been under severe financial constraint for years and has reached a Point where it can no longer fulfil its responsibilities to a Large number of the u of m received million in operating funds from the government for the current fiscal the report says it needs an additional million for its operating budget next the 110yearold institution also wants an extra million for new lab and building it received million this year for those and computer added design arid1 manufacture it is a serious indictment of the Quality of our senior Liberal education minister Jerry stories id he had not read the u of m Carstairs said the which received the report in submitted it last month to the education the report said the University needs 25 More full time teaching staff and 12 More full time support staff to Start closing the Gap in program Quality caused by past staff losses through attrition in nine it also said Dat least million is needed to buy books and to improve the u of is Library d the University cannot retain the Best of its graduate nor can it attract Good graduate students from elsewhere in because of Lack of scholarship at least is needed to set up a graduate fellow ship d the University has become less competitive in the research Grants programs and needs to restore the Quality of research and graduate d the Medicine faculty is weak in rehabilitation and occupational medi Cine necessary funding is needed to restore accreditation for the ophthalmology d there is a space shortage in the dentistry faculty and a serious staff shortage in pharma d the u of m lags in the areas of artificial computational science As the report says the agriculture faculty has a curriculum deficiency and immediately needs an agribusiness management option within the undergraduate it also needs new staff to teach Plant genetics and the human ecology the report will not be Able to respond tothe recently identified provincial needs in the area of child care studies because of a funding the Centre of which depended on funding from the social sciences and humanities research Council of Canada for the last six will have to be folded next the Brief the Council has stopped funding the Centre from this the car that goes to extremes mooom5 ii off All 87 Subaru in Stock we also have a limited number of 86 Subaru at even greater savings 87 chasers 5 Moon Silver with Grey Only 7295 pc 86 go Sedan 2 to choose 87 chasers 4x4 5 four wheel 2 to choose freight t Phi 86 go Sedan Black 1 87 Subaru go Sedan 4 door Sedan s your Choice 5 Speed or automatic 86 go Sedan 5 reclining seat 87 Subaru go Sedan four wheel 2 to choose 86 it Coupe 5 the ultimate Coupe As shown above 87 Subaru 3 door 86 3 Hatchback brakes lome Star motors 854 Nairn 6672467 North prepares to take Centre stage by Janet Tawley Chicago Tribune Washington president Rea Gans last term of office will undergo its most severe test this week when fired National Security Council aide Oliver North tells Congress what he knew about the affair More what he thinks the presi Dent a Marine corps lieu will enter the ornate Senate caucus room step behind the dark Wood witness raise his right hand and swear to Tell the what will investigators will be a detailed outline of How the Reagan administration arranged to sell arms to Iran and then How the profits were diverted to Aid rebels fighting Nicaragua sandinista government at a time when Congress prohibited such the investigators Are hoping to discover from North who in the administration or even knew about arrange in particular they want to know if who consistently has denied knowing about the diver Sion of played any they also will want to know How foreign policy wound up being made by private and they will want to know who profited from the scheme and by How and like the viewers at they will want to know what lies at the Core of this 43yearold what kind of moral Compass guided him As he assembled the National hero was he the National hero Rea Gan called the zealous Patriot hoping Only to Aid his country and enhance his president or did he expect something some kind of financial gain or profit did his True motives lie somewhere in be or were they somehow inter twined investigators Are particularly eager to question North about Previ Ous witnesses testimony on a num Ber of financial transactions involving Money from the Ira Contra operation that apparently went to they also want to probe allegations when the affair was about to be North shredded stacks of government documents and ordered others to be altered acts that would Likely bring obstruction of Justice the heroic posture has been dulled and said a source on the select joint Senate and House committee in assessing norths image after eight weeks of last week North delivered to investigators a collection of subpoenaed material that included personal Telephone correspondence and a code he also appeared at a private session with six committee members to answer questions about what he knew of the presidents knowledge if any of the diversion of arms profits to the faces four Days but he refused to go along with the Standard procedure of giving preliminary and extensive private Testi Mony under oath prior to his Public North claimed such an arrangement would violate his right to due process of the committee now will have to rely on previous testimony by other witnesses and the documents North turned Over As the basis for their questions to him at the Public hear who has been granted limited immunity by is expected to face four Days of the areas that investigators Are sure to Zero in on include d evidence that North cashed about in unsigned travellers checks provided by Contra Leader Adolfo Calero personal Pur chases that included groceries and Snow d testimony by former Cia employee Glenn Robinette that North agreed to have a Security system installed at his and that the system was paid for by retired air Force Richard apparently with Money from the Iran arms it is illegal for a government employee to accept any compensation for services other than d testimony by iranian born Busi Nessman Albert Hakim that he set up a fund As death Bene fits for norths d testimony by Shirley be cords that she delivered an envelope containing in Cash to norths As Well As a Hal dozen or More envelopes con Taining what Felt like pieces of d testimony by norths Fawn that when it became apparent the operation was about to be North ordered her to shred and alter ;