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FLORENCE, Ala. (UPD -
Police had to serve as urban
cowboys, rounding up cattle
that escaped from an auction
barn and wandered through
downtown.

One officer had to shoot a
“wild bull” that charged him
near the University of North
Alabama campus last week.
Police said they had to track
down at least three of the
animals.

Police

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Sparks said the roundup
began early when he got a
call from an upset woman in
the business district.

“She told me there was a
black bull at large on the
streets,” he said. “We
dispatched an officer to see
if we could find it. He did not
locate a black bull, but he
did locate a red one that was
by the tennis courts on the
University of North Alabama
campus.

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“He (the bull) attempted
to enter a drug store,” said
the dispatcher. ‘They
chased it out. It tried to
charge the officers. They
had to shoot that one.”

The cattle had escaped
from an auction farm.

BOSTON
Researchers reported this
week they have strengthened
the link between the virus
that causes hepatitis: .and
liver cancer, the number one
cancer killer worldwide..

The researchers at Albert
Einstgin College of Medicine

in. New York City; with the _

help of two.other institutions
in Greece and South Africa,
found DNA -from’ the
hepatitis B. virus had worked
itself into the tumor cells of
12 liver cancer patients.

DNA, the building block
of genes, carries codes that
enable the. virus to
reproduce itself. The virus
causes a disease that can
range from liver. in-
flammation to complete
failure, accompanied by
fever, nausea and other
symptoms. .

“That strengthens the link
between hepatitis B virus
and liver cancer,”..said Dr.
David A. Shafritz, author of
the report in the
England Journal of
Medicine.

“It doesn’t prove that the
virus itself is oncogenic
(cancer-causing). Other

types of work will be
necessary to prove or
demonstrate what ways

hepatitis B virus can par-
ticipate in or cause liver
cancer.”

Liver cancer causes only
about three in every 100,000
deaths per year in western

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in the Mediterranean, Africa
below the Sahara, Southeast

Asia,..China and Japan, it

ranges from 25 to 100 cases.
‘“Worldwide, it is the
leading cause of death from

.cancer,”. the study said.

Lung cancer is the No. 1
cause of cancer deaths in the

‘> United: States, according to

‘the American Cancer
Society.

Shafritz, a professor of
medicine and _ cellular

biology at Einstein, said it is
not known how the hepatitis
B virus’ DNA becomes a part
of the liver tissue. Nor does
it mean that people who

contract hepatitis will
develop liver cancer, he
said.

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However, past studies
showed people with liver
cancer were five to 10 times
more likely to- have been
victims or carriers, of
hepatitis B than others,”

Previous research. ' also
showed hepatitis .B. carriers
— those who had the virus in
blood and «could
transmit it to others, but
were unaffected by it —
were 22 times more likely to
contract liver cancer.

At least a small indication
of the presence of hepatitis
has been found in up to 35
per cent of patients in areas
of high hepatitis incidence.

Other causes of liver
cancer include pollution,
steroids and alcohol, the
study said. ;

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