November 21, 2002 Utah State
in the News
NEWS
The CDC is awarding research dollars to state health departments
around the country to find out why there are increasing numbers
of autism cases. Utah is one of the states to receive a grant.
Cole Parker has a mild form of autism, and has had five years
of therapy to become a high functioning child. Jay Carlson has
a more severe form of autism, called the Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The rate of autism increased four times in the past ten years.
The CDC wants to know if this because autism is better diagnosed
or if there is an epidemic. A researcher at USU thinks the autistic
child's immune system overreacts to a vaccination. (KSL, newscast,
6:30 p.m., 11/19/02)
MOCK EMERGENCY
TESTS USU’S SKILLS: STUDENTS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE HANDS-ON
ACTION
When a staged disaster struck Utah State University on Tuesday,
not all of the troubles were fake. While fire and rescue EMTs
assessed mock victims coming into the campus triage, a real
emergency was dispatched over their radios. Just across campus,
a platform stage with 20 people on it collapsed. (Deseret News,
11/20/02) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,450015746,00.html
DRILL TESTS EMERGENCY
SERVICES: TEAMS RESPOND WELL TO ‘INCIDENT’ AT USU
Screams for help began bellowing from the fourth story window
shortly after 9 a.m. Several floors of the Utah State University
Inn lay in shambles, dust still settling from the impact. A
large construction crane that just moments ago crashed into
the building lay where the roof use to be. As many as 80 people
inside were hurt. Some of them were dying. That was the mock
disaster scenario that played out at USU on Tuesday morning.
The drill was designed to assess the response time and cooperation
between multiple Cache County emergency agencies in a large
local tragedy. (Herald Journal, 11/20/02)
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