From the Doctor:
Bed mates share little scabies' big itch
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Dear Dr. Copperman:
I have a blotchy linear rash and the
itch drives me crazy, especially at night. I
haven’t been anywhere near poison
oak. What is it?
Stricken
Dear Stricken:
You may not have been stricken, but
rather bitten. If your rash is concentrated
around the spaces between your fin
gers, on the under surfaces of your arms
and wrists, in your armpits, around your
groin and on your back; and if it appears
as reddened, slightly raised lines in the
skin, you may be the friendly carrier of
the little bug who is totally blind. Sarcop
todae is her family name. You can call
her scabies.
The lack of sight doesn’t bother this
jolly jewel. She is not much to look at
anyhow. When full grown (12 days from
egg to adult), she is only 50 times bigger
than a red blood cell and four times smal
ler than the smallest louse. At her pret
tiest she looks like a motley pebble with
lots of dirt, lint and bristles, but you can’t
see her anyhow with your naked eye.
Like lice, scabies are fond of affection.
Close personal contact is very stimulat
ing to our bristly beast and she is more
than willing to bore into the skin of a new
host at two or three millimeters a day.
The males tag along behind the females
and make little side pockets while she
burrows the main tunnel and lays two
eggs a day for the four to five weeks of
her life. While she mostly encourages
people to share beds and rub skins, she
has also been known to find new homes
by sharing towels, clothes and sheets,
She gets very lonely when not with any
one and will die in three to four days
when out of her burrow.
On her own she really causes very
little trouble. Other than the itch around
her burrow, she does no harm. When
you scratch, though, with your huge,
dirty fingernails, tearing and abrading
your skin and depositing bacteria in it,
you make the rash much worse, and can
even cause infections in the skin.
If you wish to make her unwelcome a
single application of Kwell makes a very
definitive message. However, it will take
another 10 days to two weeks for the
rash to go away, since your skin will
continue to react to the poor dead Sar
copidae lying slain in their burrows.
Simultaneously wash all your clothes,
towels, and sheets. Then make sure
your bedroom companions have done
the same thing.
Terry Copperman, M.D.
Copyright I977
Geothermal potential could fill energy needs
ByE.G. WHITE-SWIFT
Of the Emerald
Oregon sits atop part of a gigan
tic natural steam boiler that could
solve the state’s energy needs,
John Bigelow told the Rubicon
Society Wednesday.
Bigelow, vice-president of
McKenzie Guardians (an en
vironmental group based along
the McKenzie River) and a former
Bonneville Power Administration
engineer, told the Republican lun
cheon group that as a concerned
environmentalist, he would like to
see clean energy sources de
veloped, particularly geothermal
resources.
“In the Cascades, numerous
hot springs indicate the presence
of subsurface thermal energies,"
Bigelow said. “And, in the McKen
zie Valley, access roads already
exist, electrical transmission lines
are already serviceable, and pre
viously logged areas provide ex
cellent research sites with minimal
environmental degradation.”
Although geothermal is an at
tractive near-term energy source,
Bigelow said its development is
impeded by social convention and
government sluggishness.
"The utilities are unwilling to in
vest the large sums of money
needed for exploration until
geothermal becomes a more ac
cepted energy resource invest
ment," he said. “Lack of capital
investment funding and the ‘nuc
lear profit guarantee’ have worked
to stifle Oregon’s geothermal and
hydrothermal resources.”
Bigelow believes geothermal is
the cleanest and most economic
alternative now that the region’s
hydro-generating capacity is al
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late this year.
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finish the environmental impact
process as required by the Na
tional Environmental Protection
Act of 1969, The Cascade’s geo
thermal potential will remain un
tapped.
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