16 THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., SEPTEMBER 6, 1980 After Five Years Of Research Snail Fever Cure Ready For Human Tests After five years of research funded primarily by the Agency for Interna tional Development, a Johns Hopkins scientist has developed a drug for mulation that promises to cure snail fever, a chronic .debilitating disese that af flicts up to 300 million people in tropical coun tries, principally those liv ing in Africa, Asia, the Near East, Latin America and the Caribben. It does not normally occur in the United States. The scientist is Dr. Ernest Bueding, an expert on parasitic diseases and NEW SNAIL FEVER CURE READY FOR HUMAN TESTS After five years of research funded primarily by the Agency for Interna tional Development, a Johns Hopkins scientist has developed a drug for-; mutation that promises to cure snail fever, a chronic debilitating disese that af flicts up to 300 million people in tropical coun tries, principally those liv ing in Africa, Asia, the Near East, Latin America and the Caribben. It does not normally occur in the United States. The scientist is Dr. Ernest Bueding, an expert on parasitic diseases and pharamacology at the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He developed a formulation of the drug amoscanate that cured the three major forms of schistosomiasis (snail fever) in laboratory mice, hamsters and monkeys. Amoscanate is manufac tured by the Ciba-Geigy drug company of Switzerland, and was originally developed as a treatment for hookworms. Dr. Bueding's research was financed primarily with a $650,000 AID grant, with supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health. He noted that the AID grant expires next month and said his continued research and testing would require additional funds. "This is the way American science and a few American dollars can change the lives and pro ductivity of hundreds of millions of neoDle in Sears ""X I i a, vfi n V If S 1 X i r XI I r X 2Wt 0 25 THIS WEEK ONLY! Our Entire Stock of Cribs, Mattresses, Dressers, Chests, Car Seats, Playpens, High-Chairs and Strollers! During Sears Baby Week spectacular great savings will be your's on fur nishings and clothing for your little one. But don't ' delay, these great savings will last only 1 week, so hurry to Sears and Save! developing countries," said Douglass J. Bennet Jr, Administrator. Dr. Bueding says his formulation is ready for clinical tests on humans and plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration for permission to conduct clinical trials on human volunteers. "I am sure that there will be no problems with the effectiveness of the drug on humans," Dr. Bueding told AID of ficials, "but we want to be absolutely sure i is safe. That is why we will con duct human tests." AID would be able to provide the drug to people in developing countries once it is approved by the FDA. People afflicted with the disease tire easily and can not work efficiently or at all. Snail fever therefore cripples the local economy. In some areas, up to seventy per cent of the population suffer from the disease. According to Dr. Alfred Buck, tropical disease ad visor in AID's Office of Health, "the Chinese government has already experimented with the new formulation on 50,000 people quite successful ly." He said two to three million Chinese suffer from schistosomiasis Dr. Buck said, "The drug appears to be effec- ive against all three major forms of 'schistosomiasis. A single oral dose of the new formulation appears to be effective against all three major forms of schistosomiasis. A single oral dose of the new for mulation appears to be ef fective agaisnt the three. The new drug seems to have no bad side effects and will be cheap to pro duce. "To effectively control schistosomiasis," Dr. Buck explained, "we need drugs to kill parasites in man, chemicals to kill V-l Mi 1 lfajJh .... 0 h i tiff j p Teens On Patrol At a Rochester playground, Sgt. Thomas Giammarva, left, goes over some points with, from left, Teens on Patrol members Terrence Clark and Kim Steele, and Community Services of ficers Thomas Nagel and Kenneth Patterson. The innovative Teens on Patrol program, a ven ture that unites youths and police in a common cause, is in its 14th year. It is supported by a grant by Eastman Kodak Company. NORTH CAROLINA Widow Gives To NCCU Living Legacy Mrs. Doris Alexander of Normal, Illinois, has made a memorial con tribution to the "Living Legacy Fund" of the North Carolina Central University Foundation, in the name of her late hus band, H.W. Alexander. The gift was designated for the use of the NCCU Academic Skills Center, according to William P. Malone, executive director of the foundation. H.W. Alexander was the first director of the Academic Skills Center, which per mits NCCU to admit students with remediable difficulties in basic academic skills. Thomas A. Edison received his last patent when he was 81. snails in water, and a public education program to make people aware of the danger of infected water. In addition, we must provide safe water supplies and better and safer latrines." Man is infected with schistosomiasis by tiny ! parasitic schistosome worms. 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