Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 26, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday june 26, 2004 a3 human face for the need for blood by Paul Egan As a Community development coordinator with the Canadian blood services Brenda Abdai Lucier visits schools to teach students the importance of donating blood. Now in the midst of having All her blood plasma replaced through transfusions Abdai Lucier will once again have first hand experience to draw on in her class presentations. The 41-year-old Winnipeg woman had to undergo More than 400 plasma transfusions five years ago when she contracted the rare blood disease Throm she would to Botic thro Topenio Purpura be Here today top. She Snow if it want for going through the process a second somebody time after the Dis donating blood ease recently ? Brenda Abdai returned. Lucier of daughter on monday the Claire Canadian blood ser vices is urging its 4,500 employees nation wide to donate for Brenda at special clinics. The Public is also invited to give. the blood wont necessarily go to Abdai Lucier though she needs plenty and some of it Likely will. Blood demand is traditionally higher and Supply lower during the summer months. This is about being Able to put a face of a patient in front of a donor said Michael Hyduk a spokesman for the Canadian blood services in Winnipeg. She a just an amazing individual. I Don to know How she is so buoyant after what she a been its a rare blood disorder in which Small Abdai Lucier cites three keys to her survival clots form in the blood resulting in the con her husband Luke her five year old daughter sumption of blood platelets. To treat it All the How you can help Claire with whom she was pregnant when she patients blood plasma must be replaced. Got sick the first time and blood donors. Canadian blood services at 777 William Abdai Lucier was working in property Man she would to be Here today if it want for ave. Will be open for donations monday gement when she first got sick. She started somebody donating blood Abdai Lucier said from 8 . To 7 30 . Doing Public speaking on behalf of the Canad of her daughter Claire who is a healthy and. Donors May Call 1-888-2-donate toll an blood services after she recovered and Happy child. Free to make an appointment. Eventually she took a Job with the organization. In Between her two rounds of top Abdai. There will also be a Mobile clinic absolutely i a going to work there a Lucier successfully fought a bout with can monday at holy eucharist Parish Hall no question about that she said yesterday. Cer. Doctors believe the radiation treatment 460 Monroe ave., from 4 30 . To 8 everything happens for a reason in my used to fight her cancer May have triggered . The return of her top. Speed freaks beware. Police add radar Detector Detector to Arsenal Mically Superior spectre ii built and belts sonics Are working on pro instead of radar Are becoming Rou by Sarah Staples in Australia has improved their to Type devices to defeat spectre. Tine across North America. Capture rate substantially since it motorists from b.c., Alberta and still reyers site receives five inveterate Speed freaks should was introduced in 2002, says sgt. Saskatchewan should to feel entire orders a Day from hopeful Cana beware of a Stealthy new threat to John Mcnall Speed management by Safe although they can legally Diane ordering mostly higher end their claim Over the open Road a coordinator for Ontario. Own radar detectors. 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By its electronic tuning Forks currently nothing on the mar commercially available radar it can to detect a radar Detector across a much wider Range of giga Ket can defeat spectre ii said detectors. Its gaining popularity that a turned off so the moment Hertz frequencies than in the past. Radar Roy Reyer a retired police among state forces in Nevada your Detector beeps slow Down with older equipment the officer and certified radar instruct new York and Florida though not turn it off and keep an Eye on the Ontario police Force estimated Tor who Sells radar products from yet in Canada. Friendly police officer. And get out about 70 per cent of radar Detec his Arizona based website. And portable guns that Point of the tors slipped past its net. The tech manufacturers including escort beams of Light at Speed violators ? can West news service second be Case turns up in . Officials downplay result Call test inconclusive w Ashington ? an animal in the United states tested positive in a preliminary screening test for mad cow disease . Agriculture department officials said. John Clifford Deputy administrator of us a veterinary ser vices said officials Learned of the inconclusive test result late yesterday. The carcass is being sent to us a National veterinary Laboratory in Ames Iowa for additional tests. Results Are expected in four to seven Days. Officials sought to downplay the potential Gravity of the preliminary test which they said want unexpected Given the tests sensitivity. The United states beef trading partners were notified and the company was Given earlier notice Clifford said. The inconclusive result does not mean we have found another Case of be in this country Clifford said. Inconclusive results Are a Normal component of most screen ing tests which Are designed to be extremely sensitive so they will detect any Sample that could possibly be the us a remains confident in the safety of the food Supply Clifford said. Mad cow disease ? known also As Bovine spongiform encephalopathy or be ? eats holes in the brains of cattle. It sprang up in Britain in 1986 and spread through countries in Europe and Asia prompting massive destruction of herds and decimating the european mad cow disease beef Industry. Clifford declined to identify the Ani Mal or its location until testing is Complete noting its very Likely final testing could turn up negative. The animal in question did to enter the food Chain he said. If positive Well provide additional information on the Ani Mal and expanded testing the agriculture department said the inconclusive read ing was the first received by officials since they expanded National testing for the disease this month. More than 7,000 animals so far have been tested As part of the program that seeks to Check about 220,000 animals Over the next year to 18 months. A form of mad cow disease can be contracted by humans if they eat infected beef or nerve tissue and possibly through blood transfusions. Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease the human form of mad cow disease so far has killed 100 people in Britain and elsewhere including a Florida woman this week who was believed to have contracted the disease in England. If the animal tests positive it would be the second Case of mad cow discovered in the United states. In december a sin Gle Holstein on a Washington state farm tested positive prompt ing some countries including Japan and South Korea to temporarily ban imports of . Beef. An investigation of that Case discovered that the cow was born in Alberta in 1997 and later exported South of the Border. Exports of live cattle from Canada to the . Have been banned since an Alberta cow tested positive for the disease in May 2003. Since then mad cow disease has Cost the Canadian livestock Industry $3.3 billion. Each farm family that raises cattle has lost $20,000, the study also revealed. The . Government last year conducted mad cow tests on tissues from 20,543 animals virtually All of them cattle that could not stand or walk and had to be dragged to Slaughter. After the first Case of the disease in december the agriculture department initially doubled the number of animals to be tested this year to 40,000. With Many foreign governments still reluctant to ease bans on . Beef the testing program was expanded at a Cost of $70 million to include As Many As 220,000 slaughtered animals Fol lowing recommendations from an International scientific review panel. About 35 million head of cattle Are slaughtered each year in the United states. ? associated press ;