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Bacteriur i r mud, ire By William E. Schuiz Associated Press Writer ATLANTA ,(AP) _ The bacterium which causes Legionnaires' Disease apparently lives in fresh water and mud and is spread by digging in the mud or spraying the water, according to an f J _1 .? _ A. I X*. A?__ m. V A* 1 epidemiologist wiin me iNauonai Center for Disease Control. "Mud or water probably is a common place for the bacterium to live. We've found it too often," said Dr. David W. Fraser. Fraser noted a 1978 incident when 10 employees of the Virginia Electric Power Co. suddenly _ ~ 211 ...uu 4La J: ueuame 111 wiui uie uistease. The illness, then undiagnosed, has been confirmed as a mild form of Legionnaires' Disease, called Pontiac Fever after the only other known outbreak, Fraser said in a telephone interview from his home. The 10 were using compressed air hoses to clean a cooling unit for a steam turbine. "I'm sure they set up quite a mist of silt, fish, or whatever was in the pipes," Fraser said, discussing his account of the incident published in the August issue of Science Magazine. "Withir one to two days after starting work, all 10 became sick. Nim were hospitalized." All 1( recovered. m i IT I See what ! Fall I "AChampioi ! fall fas hi | preset I BELKof < I Tuesday 5 CAPSTONE | Enjoy dinner i from our ; Super Salad Bai 5 mm A | LIVttNIt S The Steve 1 f * 0 * I Youaret 5 I*v j Friday, Sep1 Reflecl n | Thomas G | Spon | University i Dining Service ? /'Ruu?ll Mouit Capstone Top of Carolin# n found in on w aici Blood samples taken at the time were tested at the CDC, Fraser said, and confirmed that the illness was caused by the bacterium which causes Legionnaires' Disease. "It is apparent that the mud (containing the bacteria) was in the steam turbine condenser, and as the men used their compressed air hoses, sent up a cloud of this bacteria which they breathed in and got sick," Fraser said. They suffered from the form of the disease which is known to have occurred only one other time, in Pontiac, Mich, in 1968. There were no fatalities among the 144 cases of the disease. The Legionnaires' Disease form, named after an outbreak in Philadelphia in 1976 which killed 29 persons, adds pneumonia to the headache, fever, cnilis ana nausea of Pontiac Fever and is often fatal without proper treatment with antibiotics. Fraser said one of the questions i yet to be answered is why the , bacterium causes Pontiac Fever in one outbreak and Legionnaires' t Disease in another. i "Pontiac Fever infects 95 to 100 I percent of those exposed, while i Legionnaires' may infect only one ) percent, or at most five percent," Fraser said. r ) from university dining t's new for I'79 nshlp Season" on nreview nted by lolumbia f, Sept. 4 CAFETERIA Fashion PL oriuw r 6 p.m. RTAINMENT Sustain Trio j nvited to a i ail | t. 7 ? 5-7 D.m. ! Ion Pool ooper Library so Ted by RHUU es South Hall Tn? Mad Italian Convtnitnc* Itora t V* * % > MA ?f * ? , .. ' :' ' i.j ' Which way do /go? Thfssr SALES OPPORTUINI START' IIM MAKI NOW. . Your first job after make. Most emplo1 important. But, coi you way ahead of 1 If you are a junioi derstands what thi you can get that v< ADVERTISING DEI Under the directio Media Advertising ployment after gra learn about and a TUr, ^ UUOII IC33CJ. 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