VOL I, Issue 13, October 8, 2014 42 Juvenile Escapes Kept From Public Alerts Not Our Job, CYFD Says PAGE 5 Worried About Ebola? Worry About Flu More PAGE 2 Network TV Vet Hiding Out in East Mountains PAGE 6 ABQ ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT COVERAGE STARTS ON PAGE 13 PAGE 2 • October 8, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS ABQ Free Press Pulp N.M. Enters New Disease Season COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF www.freeabq.com VOL I, Issue 13, October 8, 2014 How Ebola Spreads www.abqarts.com One of us developed glucose intolerance. “Our he threat of an Ebola case making findings suggest that non-caloric Tit to New Mexico is “relatively Contact with bodily fluids of an infected Matt Lauer’s new perk at NBC’s Editor: [email protected] artificial sweeteners may have directly low,” but the more immediate threats person, including blood, vomit, semen, “Today” show is a helicopter com- saliva, sweat, urine and breast milk; contributed to enhancing the exact that New Mexicans face are influenza, Associate Editor, Arts: mute three times a week from his $15 or contact with objects contaminated [email protected] epidemic that they themselves were pertussis, measles, hantavirus and by these fluids. Ebola is not spread by million home in the Hamptons to plague, said New Mexico State IN THIS ISSUE intended to fight,” scientists from the Advertising: NBC’s studio at Rockefeller Center in sneezing or coughing. [email protected] Weizmann Institute of Science wrote Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Landen. Manhattan, the New York Post report- [email protected] in the journal Nature. This year’s wet summer signals Landen said. ed. Lauer’s $20 million-a-year contract that cases of the latter two diseases The threat of Ebola reaching the U.S. On Twitter: @freeabq was extended in June through 2016. “I NEWS – hantavirus and plague – likely will was greater when the outbreak in West think the image people have is that it’s Smart sticks rise because of an increase in the Africa was in its early stages, before ABQ Free Press Pulp News .............................................................................................................Page all polo fields and cocktail parties,” Editor 2 Coming to the Chinese market population of rodents that carry them. the U.S. had begun training healthcare Lauer told Hamptons Magazine. “We Dan Vukelich Forget Ebola, N.M. has other disease worries ................................................................................ Page 2 soon are smart chopsticks that can “Basically, the ecosystem is fueled workers to recognize the symptoms, have a painfully normal existence.” (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 connect to a smartphone app to detect by rainfall, which will increase the chief of which is fever, Landen said. ABQ Free Press Local Briefs............................................................................................................Page 4 whether the user’s food is safe, and risk of hantavirus and plague cycles Landen and the four epidemiol- Associate Editor, Arts YDDC keeps mum on escapees .................................................................................................... Page 5 over time, based on the increase in Violated especially, whether it was cooked in ogists who work for him are part Stephanie Hainsfurther COVER STORY: Make mine Marash ..............................................................................................Page vegetation,” Landen said. 6 Nearly one in five women has been contaminated cooking oil made from of a nationwide system designed (505) 301-0905 Hantavirus is not transmissible Kids need afterschool programs ....................................................................................................Page 14 sexually assaulted, and almost half recycled garbage – a growing concern to identify people who both exhibit between people, but the pneumonic have suffered sexual domestic violence, of Chinese who buy food from street Ebola-like fever symptoms and who Design form of plague is. By contrast, Ebola the Centers for Disease Control and vendors in China’s cities. likely had exposure in an area where Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa spreads only by close contact and is Prevention said in a new report based Ebola is present – at the moment, West not spread by sneezes or coughs, he Photography on 2011 data. Nearly half of the women Africa. OPINION Death of Topless? said. raped are attacked by a husband or boy- His office’s epidemiologists received Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio In late September, New Mexico Seth Taylor cartoon ...........................................................................................................................Page 4 friend. The CDC’s statistics represent a French women are abandoning topless training through the federal Centers Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm reported its first case of Enterovirus dramatic increase from past estimates, sunbathing, according to French Elle. for Disease Control and Prevention’s Joe Monahan: Did Susana use NCIC database to ID opponents? ..................................................Page 7 D68, which targets children. In most Contributors this issue largely because the agency expanded Reasons include concerns about skin Epidemic Intelligence Service – the Jeff Gardner: The blind are leading the president ............................................................................Page cases, it resembles a mild to severe Sabrina Almager, Diane Denish, Nan Elsasser, 7 the definition of sexual assault to cancer, the perception that topless CDC’s early-warning system for cold, but in a few cases it has led to Barry Gaines, Jeffry Gardner, Roderick Kennedy, Diane Denish: Why the Land of Enchantment is losing its luster .....................................................Page 9 include cases where respondents felt women are loose women, and the spotting disease trends. rise of “Femen,” a group of women paralysis. The system relies on local hospitals’ Joe Monahan, Jerry Ortiz Y Pino, Aimless Vagabond: Farming flavored beetles... ...........................................................................Page 11 unsafe or were drunk or high and Richard Oyama, Peter St. Cyr, Saffron Tomato, activists in Europe who go topless Landen said the single most in-house epidemiologists to report a therefore unable to consent. Efrain Villa Roderick Kennedy: Life sciences means the morgue ...................................................................Page 11 during protests. And then there’s the immediate threat in New Mexico is suspected case of a transmissible dis- flu. A 94-year-old Bernalillo County rise of social media, where the image of ease to Landen’s team, one of whom Copy Editors Not so sweet man who died last month was the is always on call. A hospital with a a woman going topless in Saint-Tropez Jim Wagner state’s first confirmed case of flu this suspected case is instructed to isolate Israeli scientists have found that can go viral in a matter of minutes. Wendy Fox Dial ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE the three most commonly used season. Last season, 34 people died and treat the patient while lab tests are sweeteners – aspartame, sucralose and Oktoberfest from influenza in New Mexico, a state conducted and the state Department of Advertising Dogs dawdle over to Balloon Park ...................................................................................................Page 2 saccharin – contribute to weight gain, Department of Health spokesman said. Health communicates with the CDC. Calling All Pets...............................................................................................................................Page 12 At greatest risk of flu are children That was what happened when not weight loss. The sweeteners also Each year about this time, as many as Greta Weiner, 345-4080, Ext, 803 Deep Dish: Restaurants go pink to defeat breast cancer ..............................................................Page 13 contributed to higher blood pressure 800 of the 100,000 people who flock to younger than 5 and adults 65 and a woman who had traveled from Sherri J. Barth (505) 261-5686 and higher blood-sugar levels. When Oktoberfest in Munich become what older. “I think that influenza is a Sierra Leone and had fever visited the Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 Theater: “Drowning Girls” ..............................................................................................................Page 16 scientists gave the sweeteners to hu- Germans refer to as bierleichen – or much greater infectious disease risk Universityof New Mexico Hospital. Theater: Laughter solves “The Mystery of Irma Vep” ....................................................................Page 16 for everyone in New Mexico, and Lab tests showed she was a false man volunteers who didn’t use them, beer corpses – after drinking so much Music: The roots of modern jazz at The Outpost ...........................................................................Page 17 more than half of the small sample they lapse into unconsciousness. everyone should be vaccinated,” alarm. Published every other week by: Great Noggins LLC Dance: Events at UNM and Keshet ...............................................................................................Page 17 P.O. 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