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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1995)
Chicken pox vaccination available in health center Mara Stine QtQQOn (J&fy Thu first chicken pox vaccine to he dnvifIo|iMi is now available to University students in the Student Health (enter. Varivax was approver! by (tie Food and Drug Administration in March and was available at the University May t. said Judy Moffett, nursing direr tor of the health center (Duckett pox is a viral infection charm ten/od by a rash of rod. itchy blisters For $100, a student re< ones two doses of the vnt i ine with tfie second one to be given one month after the first, Moffett said The von ine has proven HO percent effective in preventing chicken pox. she said, "Twenty percent of those vaccinated might gel the disease but It will be milder." she said Moffett said most University students hove already had i hicken pox, and won't need to fie vtcdnattd About six cases a year are diagnosed at tile health center, said (.erald Fleis< fili. director and physician for the health i en ter lit* also said international students worn to get infected more often than domestic students. "It does seem like a greater proportion of the eases that we see are with interna tional students," he said "It may be that it is not as common a disease overseas ' Moffett said chit ken pox an* one of the most highly communicable < hildhood infections so very few teens, young adults and adults come to the University with out (.niching it, she said The vai cine is most useful for children but i an benefit adults who haven't had i bn ken pox and are going to be in silua lions where they may lx- exposed to il Student* who haven't had chi< ken pox and plan on working with children in day-care centers or schools should be vaccinated she said Fteishli agreed*and said the disease appears to lie worse for adults Because the vaccine is so expensive, the health < enter is looking into costs of a blood lest that determines whether a |>er son has had the disease However, if the blood test costs more to administer than the vaccine, it would l» cheaper to get the vaccination, FletschU said. Humanitarians released after nine weeks of captivity PORTLAND.(AP) Rita Knapp worried that hut ion, jnnatlian. was pine inn himself in danger by going to Bosnia with the huinanit.irian group Pharmm ists With out Borders "He said. 'Mother, don't worry, they’re not going to send us where there's fighting," the Portland woman said of tier 37-year old son. the youngest of her four < till drew "Hut the need for medical supplies in Sarajevo is < ritu ill." On Mart h -t, (onathau Knapp and four supply drivers for the french based relief organisation took a wrong turn at the Sarajevo airport and were taken prisoner by the Sorbs lbs parents got the news three day# later Her first rein lion. Mrs Knapp said, vs as fear for iier son's safety "When cine doesn't know what is happen ing, those kinds of worries surface Held captive for nine weeks, lonatheii Knapp, tile con voy leader, nod ins four french colleagues finally were released May 11 after the relief group agreed to pay $3f>.2.'tO ransom demanded by the Serbs The Knapps said French officials and the World Council of Chore lies aided in arranging the release U S official* never were allowed to se>e the men. Mrs Knapp said. For the first live days. Knapp was isolated from his I rene h c olleagties and interrogated four tunes We were told at one point that thesy offered to let the I rene hmen go and keep Jonathan.*’ Mrs Knapp said ■ t he Phirma< i«li told them at the Imginning there would foe no luirgoming on that *<2ore." Adding toward the Serbs animosity toward Amert 1 ale, she said there was misjiu mu when thev he.vrd tlull Knapp was the son of n minister "The Sorbs got word that he was a minister's son,” Mrs Knapp said "They thought he was the son of a gov ernment official That would have been a real prize for them," The Rev Charles Knapp is a minister In the United Churr:h of Christ (Congregational) Alter fisdays, a former employee of the 1 rent h for eign ministry was allowed to mm* the five men |. in.it hail said everythin) changed after t hat It i-■ r • ■ was no more interrogation They were given special diets they wen- treated rmn.Ii differently.” she said The men were allowed to send and re<«ive letters, hut she said she sometimes found it hard to write to her son 1 sat down to the typewriter several times and t felt like ! w as bone-dry. I felt like drivel, insigntfh ant things, were inappropriate,” she said There was wistful quality to some of her son's letters, but he didn't sound depressed, she said. "He couldn't afford to Im?,” she said “This was his crow and lie had to stay up for them." His letters dew ritual their conversations, the food they ate. their accommodations and their surroundings, she said "He described the daffodils poking through the ground and the two heavy snowstorms they had. and seeing fields that wereSurned. hut lie i ouldnt tell what was facing planted there "He said the country side seemed very much like the Northwest in its beauty, and he said it was sad |thnt because of the war) the people could not enjoy tt the way we in the Northwest enjoy our scenery." she said. During the Knapps' ordeal, they kept in touch w ith the U S State Department. Amnesty International and the Carter Center in hopes of help for their son Two of the former U S hostages in l>obanon, Hen Weir and Terry Anderson, offered their help and support. Mrs Knapp said. The Knapps felt they had to provide the same support for their son. "I don't know so much as it's faith, but that it's hope." she said "We had to believe everything positive was going to happen. "Whether you call it prayer or whatever you call it. I believe that those things get through to people who are in troubled places." This week, the Knapps said, their son was back in France attending to business. They waited to hoar more about his schedule and upcoming visit "Within a couple of weeks he'll be homo, but we don't know when." Charles Knapp said. "We've had some nice conversations with him. hut it would be nice to see him and touch him. too." 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