Disease |
back again

THE MYSTERIOUS DISEASE which afflicted horses in
the northwest this summer has reappeared i in Terrace,

“Tt looks like it’s broken out again,” said Terrace vet
Dave Farkvam last week,

The disease first appeared in Burns Lake earlier this
summer, and there were soon four confirmed cases in Ter-
Tact, Symptoms were blisters on the tongues and lips of
the horses, and a loss of appetite.

” Now five horses which are stabled in Old Remo have the
same symptoms. ‘‘It looks like a curling iron has been
~ burned on their tongues in a pattern,’’ said Farkvam.

Tissue samples which were taken from horses afflicted
the first time around: showed the disease was probably
caused by something the horses were cating.

Provincial veterinarian Merv Wetzstein, who was in
charge of the investigation, described the problem as an
external irritant.

However, both Farkvam, and Smithers vet Britt Mills are
perplexed by this reoccurrence. That’s because two of the
five horses which are now afflicted came from the barn in
Bums Lake where the outbreak first occurred.
~. They appeared healthy when they arrived at the end of
July,’ said Kory Anderson.
~ Then those two horse broke out in blisters, followed by
the three other horses Anderson also had on her property.
One horse went entirely off its feed during the stage when
the blisters were at their worst.

In an effort to see whether Anderson’s horses were
eating anything which could cause these symptoms, her
pastures were tested. But nothing unusual showed up.

‘There's nothing there really to chew on,” said Fark-
vam, explaining her lands had only recently been logged.

Both he and Mills think the disease could be contagious.
And they’re not ruling out the chance it could be related to
a known horse disease with similar symptoms.

Viruses change. They aren’t a stagnant thing,” said
Farkvam. ‘It’s intriguing to watch the progress of it,’’
added Mills. ‘‘Et still looks like a trauma or a toxic, but it
also appears to be contagicus.,”’

Anderson isn’t moving her horses around, but she’s
worried about other horses which were in contact with her
horses before they showed any symptoms.

Wetzstein is conducting tests on the new samples from

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Anderson’s horses, but he hasn’t come to any conclusions
yet,

“There's no evidence it’s infectious,’ he says. “There
are all kinds of things that can cause problems like this,’

Anderson remains doubtful. ‘‘Maybe that’s what the
testa are saying, but I just don’t buy that it’s not con-
tagious,”’ she said.

She’s warned people whose horses were in contact with
hers to keep on eye on their animals,

But Wetzstein doesn’t think horse owners should worry
too much about the disease, since symptoms appear to be
relatively minor.

KORY ANDERSON
checks for blisters on the
tongue of one of her
horses. She thinks they
have the sore mouth dis-
ease which affected
horses throughout the
northwest earlier this
summer,

Street proofer starts big project

‘News in Brief

Melissa Munn

MELISSA MUNN has been hired by the women’s centre
to help coordinate streetproofing training sessions for
young people.

Muna is already familiar to many in the community as
the safer campuses coordinator at Northwest Community
College, She’ll stil] be working on campus safety, but in a
reduced role.

Her new job is tied iato the successful Streetproofing
Our Kids program which was held here last winter.

Instructors taught children from kindergarten to grade
seven the basics of self-defence, and to be wary of
strangers.

The community responded positively to the program, and
many people asked that even more children should have

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Caught on film

VIA RAIL’S passenger train called the Skeena, which
nins from Jasper to Prince Rupert, is in for seme inter-
national television exposure,

Three film crews have passed through the northwest
on the train this summer gathering tape for two docu-
mentary serics.

One is a six-part serics on sccnic train journeys being
done by an Oregon Public Broadcasting System televi-
sion slation, one is for a travel series hosted by Michael
Palin of Monty Python fame and the third is for a Life
Channel documentary.

Palin bas done travel series before, including trips to
Antarctica. The Oregon PBS series is expected to be
broadcast next spring.

CBC changes newscasts

THESE MAY be dark days when it comes to CBC
budgets and spending but there is one good thing to
come from the public broadcaster recently.

Beginning last week CBC Radio’s moming new-
speople started producing one newscast for Lower
Mainland and Victoria area listeners and another one
for the rest of the province.

“The problem we were having is there were lols of
stories in the province and with a certain length of
newscast we couldn't get everything on,’’ said CBC’s
B.C. radio director Susan Engelbert last weck.But now,
with two newscasts, stories which mean more to Van-
couver dwellers won't be inflicted to the same degree
on those who live elsewhere.

Engelbert said much of the material may remain the
same but that it will be used differently on the two
newscasts.

“Having two newscasts means we're making better
use of our resources.’’

CBC Radio also announced last weck a change in
the way it does national radio newscasts. There will
now be the ability to insert local radio stories as well as
include ones being produced at the corporation’s
Toronto headquarters.

Hospital hires director

MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital has hired a new patient
services director.

Juanita Barrett, a registered nurse working as a 1urs-
ing administrator in St. John’s, Newfoundland, starts
here Sept. 30, She fills the vacancy created when Joyce
Krause resigned late last year,

Barrett was the unanimous choice of the search com:

This week, Munn and volunteers from around the city
are taking a five-day training course put on by Streetproof-
ing Our Kids,

“It’s a good opportunity to make our kids more aware
and give them skills to recognize dangerous situations,"’
said Munn.

She’s hoping to be able to reach all children in Terrace
up to grade ten during her six month contract.

The school district has asked that the sessions take place
outside of normal teaching hours, so Munn plans to host
them on Junch hours, weekends and evenings. She plans to

mittee struck to fill the position.

And the hospital has a new personnel manager. Reg-
istered nurse Cynthia Stokes now works in the in-
tensive care unit and is a B.C, Nurses’ Union shop
steward,

This is a new position, created by carving up the
responsibilities of Charlie Lindstrom who is taking car-
ly retirement from his post as suppor services director.

Lindstrom’s other duties are being assumed by existing
employess at the hospital.

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start offering the course by mid-October or November.

HEALTH & SAFETY REGULATIONS

HOW TO MAKE A SUBMISSION

You may make a submission in writing at any time up to
October 18, Forward your submission to the mailing address
or fax number below. All written submissions will be included
in the public hearing record and receive consideraton.

Those wishing to make an oral presentation, please notify
the Secretariat for Regulation Review before the hearing date.

Oral hearings are scheduled from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, except
at Prince Rupert, Cranbrook and Fort St. John, where hearings
will be held from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

HOW TO GET A COPY OF THE PROPOSED
REGULATIONS

You can get a copy of the proposed regulations from the .
Secretarial for Regulation Review, or from any WCB office.
The Secretariat's mailing address is:

Secretariat for Regulation Review,

Workers’ Compensation Board,

PO Box 5350,

Vancouver, BC, V6B S5L5.
The Lelephone number is 604 234-8600 or toll free i in B. C.
at f &88 992-6622. Fax: 604 279-7604.

HEARING LOCATIONS
Richmond Tuesday, September 7 “WCB ‘Auditorium
Victoria Wednesday, September 18 Harbour Towers
Campbell River Friday, September 20 Coast Discovery Inn
Richmond Saturday, September 21 ‘WCB Auditorium
Prince Rupert Tuesday, September 24 Highliner Inn
Terrace Wednesday, September 25 “Coast Inn of the West
Prince George Thursday, September 26- ~ Ramada Hotel
Fort St. Jahn Friday, September 27 Pioneer Inn
Kamloops Monday, September 30 ' ~ Stockmen’s Inn
Kelowna Tuesday, October 1 Coast Royal Anne
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Castlegar Thursday, October 3 Castlegar Inn
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writing at the mailing address above, .

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