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Hi again Carole; My memory is coming back.........I knew I had seen some reference somewhere. Our own (University of British Columbia) Dr. Pat McGeer and Dr. John Steele are involved in Alzheimer research on Guam! I put their names in the search engine and came up with a few more sites you can look at: (more recent too....Sept. 1997) http://publicaffairs.ubc.ca/mr/mr97/mr-97-75.html http://www.apnet.com/inscight/11141996/parkin.htm http://www.clearlight.com/~morph/present/park3_1.htm http://www.medaccess.com/physical/neuro/psp.htm http://www.med.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/june97/guamanian.html Dr. John Steele (a Canadian) is working in Guam with Dr. Ulla-Katrina Craig. Dr. Craig is the Associate Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Services at the University of Guam. > > Hi Carole; > I've also seen that reference somewhere and after reading Ronald > Vetters post decided to look a little on the web. (Ron your posting > is interesting but I don't make the connection between cannibalism in > New Guinea and personnel stationed in Guam) > My apologies Ron, I'm told there is a familial gene shared by the natives of New Guinea and the natives of Guam and there is some connection in the research going on! > > > Greetings > > > > Do any of you know if there is anything new about the connection > > between Guam and the high incidence of a particular type of > > Parkinsons ? I ran across a reference to someone gathering info on > > that and would like to contact them as I spent some years on Guam in > > the sixties . I lived on military bases in the pacific area while > > growing up and I remember the DDT trucks gassing our neighborhoods > > regularly . Perhaps there is some connection . This is a scary > > thought for me as the Guam Parkinsons is a particularly nasty form > > of the disease . Anyway , I would like to know more about this . If > > anyone has any news please let me know . > > > > You all make me smile every day when I read the list , thanks ! > > > > Carol Mcleod > > 47/1 > > [log in to unmask] > > > > Carole, I found several references: > This first one contains the name and address of a person who was > collecting data on PD & Guam in 1993 - see text below > > http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~hssrsdn/alsig/archive/alsd013.txt > > This next one contains a catalog of medical papers and you might > access some of this material at a good medical library > > http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~hssrsdn/papers/mnd92.txt > > This site has references to other afflictions and Guam > > http://www.medaccess.com/physical/neuro/psp.htm > > This last site also refers to a special type of PD and Guam > > http://www.cnsonline.org/www/archive/parkins/park-01.txt > > The 1st.(1993) site offers a contact person: > > Susan F. Schweitzer > Neurological Clinical Nurse Specialist & Co-ordinator > APDA Information and Referal Center > 1000 Locus Street > Reno, Nevada > 89520 > (702) 328-1766 > Again I hope some of this might help you out. Regards.............Murray . [log in to unmask]