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plan that emphasizes fruits,
vegetables, and low-fat dairy
foods; choosing and prepar
ing foods with less salt and
sodium and drinking alco
holic beverages in modera
tion.
High blood pressure occurs
more often among African
Americans than whites. It
begins at an earlier age and
is usually more severe,
according to the institute.
African Americans also have
a higher death rate from
stroke and kidney disease
than whites.
One out of every four
CDC
watches
for Ulness
adults have high blood pres
sure, it can lead to heart dis
ease, stroke, kidney disease
and is one of the leading
causes of death in the U.S.
Along with exercise, diet is
important in controlling
blood pressure. The institute
suggests using the DASH
(dietary approaches to stop
hypertension) eating plan.
The plan, according to the
guide, emphasizes eating
fresh fruits and vegetables
and low fat dairy products as
well as reducing the sodium
intake.
“Starting on the DASH
eating plan is fairly easy. It
requires no special foods and
has no hard to follow
recipes,” the guide states.
For more information, log
on to the institute’s web site:
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/inde
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is no crystal ball to look
into,” said Dr. Corrie Brown,
a University of Georgia pro
fessor and member of the
Secretary of Agriculture’s
advisory committee for ani
mal and poultry diseases.
Health officials say there’s
no evidence yet of any new
outbreaks threatening
ffiumans, but they are closely
watching a few likely sus
pects.
At the top of the list is
influenza. Up to 50 million
people died in the flu pan
demic of 1918-1919, the
worst flu outbreak in recent
history. Because flu strains
mutate and swap genes with
other flu viruses, health offi
cials fear that another pow
erful strain could strike at
any time.
“Most of us in infectious
diseases are waiting for an
influenza pandemic,” said
Dr. Mark Smohnski, a for
mer CDC official who helped
investigate hantavirus when
that disease first appeared
in 1993 in the United States.
The avian influenza out
break earlier this year in
Asia scared health officials,
as it hit eight Asian coun
tries, killing 24 people in
Vietnam and Thailand.
About 100 million chickens
in Asia either died from the
illness or were slaughtered
to prevent its spread.
“It’s the first time we’ve
ever had an avian flu epi
demic in multiple countries
at one time of a highly path
ogenic strain,” said
Smohnski, now acting vice
president of biological pro
grams at the nonprofit
Nuclear Threat Institute.
Another concern are dis
eases transmitted by insects.
The mosquito-bome West
Nile virus came to the
United States in 1999 and
has spread across the conti
nental United States.
That experience has made
health officials wary of Rift
Valley fever, another mos
quito-bome disease, but one
that is much deadher than
West Nile. Rift Valley fever
has a mortahty rate of up to
26 percent, compared to
West Nile, which kills up to
10 percent of those it infects.
“If we get Rift Valley fever
in the United States, it
would make West Nile look
like a hiccup,” Brown said.
“It was heavily investigated
during the Cold War as a
good way to imrhobilize
troops.”
Once confined to Africa,
Rift Valley fever entered the
Arabian peninsula for the
first time four years ago. It’s
believed to have spread
through exported livestock.
About 95 people died fium it
in Saudi Arabia in 2000.
The concern in the United
States over the Rift Valley
fever is that about 25 differ
ent kinds of domestic mos
quitoes could cany the virus
if it reaches North America.
The pig-bome Nipah virus,
discovered in 1998 in
Malaysia, “has surfaced
periodically in the swine
populations,” said Dr. Nina
Marano, acting associate
director for veterinary medi
cine and public health for the
CDC.
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