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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Denton Record-Chronicle
Police: Suspect hints at more killings
Austin department
reviews cases for
ties to Indiana man
By Tom Coyne
and Michael Tarm
Associated Press
GARY, Ind. — Police investi-
gating the slayings of seven
women whose bodies were
found in northwest Indiana over
the weekend said Monday they
believe it is the
work of a serial
killer, and that
the suspect has
indicated there
could be more
victims going
back 20 years.
The Lake
County prosecutor’s office on
Monday charged 43-year-old
Darren Vann of Gary, Indiana,
in the strangulation death of 19-
year-old Affikka Hardy. Her
Vann
body was found Friday night at a
Motel 6 in nearby Hammond.
Gary officials were expected
to charge Vann later this week
in the deaths of six more wom-
en, whose bodies were found
Saturday and Sunday. Ham-
mond Police Chief John
Doughty said at a news confer-
ence that Vann confessed to
Hardy’s slaying and gave police
information that led to the oth-
er bodies in Gary, including
three on the same block.
Vann was a convicted sex of-
fender in Texas, where he plead-
ed guilty in 2009 to raping a
woman and was released from
prison in July 2013.
The Austin Police Depart-
ment issued a statement Mon-
day saying it would review miss-
ing persons and cold cases to de-
termine if there could be a link
to Vann and asked anyone with
information to come forward.
Doughty said police have no
specific indication that any slay-
ings have occurred in another
state, and the Gary slayings ap-
peared to have happened re-
cently. He said Vann is cooper-
ating with investigators in the
hope of making a deal with pros-
ecutors.
“It could go back as far as 20
years based on some statements
we have, but that has yet to be
corroborated,” Doughty said.
The Texas Department of
Public Safety listed his risk level
as ‘low” on its sex offender regis-
try. He did not register in Indi-
ana.
Court records in Travis
County show Vann served a five-
year prison sentence, with credit
for the 15 months he was in jail
awaiting trial, after pleading
guilty in 2009 to sexually as-
saulting a woman at an Austin
apartment two years earlier.
Police saidthey took Vann in-
to custody Saturday afternoon
after obtaining a search warrant
for a home and vehicle in Gary.
A Nigerian
health official
uses a ther-
mometer on
a worker on
Aug. 4 in the
arrivals hall
of Murtala
Muhammed
International
Airport in
Lagos, Ni-
geria.
Sunday Alamba/
AP file photo
Nigeria declared Ebola-free
NEW GUIDELINES: HEAD-TO-TOE COVERAGE
Health care workers should be completely covered — no skin exposed —
while caring for Ebola patients, according to revised guidelines issued by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The government agency
tightened its guidance after two Dallas nurses became infected with the
virus while caring for an Ebola patient.
Highlights of the revised guidelines:
■ Use face shield, gown or coverall, boot cover and double gloves.
■ Wear hood to completely cover the head and neck.
■ Use respirator, not goggles.
■ Put on waterproof apron if patient is vomiting or has diarrhea.
■ Designate area for putting on and taking off gear.
■ Have trained monitor supervise the putting on and removal of gear.
■ Use disinfectant wipes on contaminated gear before removing.
■ Disinfect gloved hands between steps while taking off gear.
■ Conduct repeated training for using protective gear.
— The Associated Press
Doctors credit
rehydration fluids,
careful tracking
By Michelle Faul
and Andrew Njuguna
Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria — Water
laced with salt and sugar, and
gallons of the nasty-tasting stuff.
Doctors who survived Ebola
in Nigeria credited heavy doses
of fluids with saving their fives as
the World Health Organization
declared the country Ebola-free
Monday, a rare victory in the
battle against the disease that is
ravaging West Africa.
In the end, Nigeria — the
most populous country in Afri-
ca, with 160 million people —
had just 20 cases, including
eight deaths, a lower death rate
than the 70 percent seen else-
where across the stricken region.
Officials are crediting strong
tracking and isolation of people
exposed to the virus, and aggres-
sive rehydration of infected pa-
tients to counter the effects of
vomiting, diarrhea and other
symptoms.
Nigeria’s containment of
Ebola is a “spectacular success
story,” said Rui Gama Vaz, WHO
director for Nigeria.
Survivor Dr. Adaora Igonoh
said the treatment is not easy. It
entails drinking, as she did, at
least L3 gallons of the solution
every day for five or six days
when you have mouth sores and
a sore throat and feel depressed.
“You don’t want to drink any-
thing. You’re too weak, and with
the sore throat it’s difficult to
swallow, but you know when
you have just vomited, you need
it,” she told The Associated
Press. “I had to mentally tell my-
self, ‘You have got to drink this
fluid, whether it tastes nice or
not.’”
Some 9,000 people have
been infected with Ebola, and
about4,500 have died, mostly in
hard-hit Sierra Leone, Guinea
and Liberia, with the number of
cases expected to increase expo-
nentially in the coming weeks.
Dr. Simon Mardel, one of the
world’s leading experts on viral
hemorrhagic fevers, said the
number of deaths could be cut in
half if infected people were
taught to properly hydrate
themselves and do not take anti-
inflammatory drugs, which can
actually harm Ebola victims.
In other developments:
■ About 120 people in the
U.S. are being monitored for
symptoms because they may
have had contact with one of
Dallas’ three Ebola victims.
More than 40 others have been
given the all-clear after the 21-
day maximum incubation peri-
od for the virus ended.
■ The European Union
stepped up efforts to raise nearly
$1.3 billion to combat the out-
break.
■ President Barack Obama
is working the phones with
world leaders, appealing to
them to join the fight.
■ WHO director Margaret
Chan said that an internal
WHO report obtained by the AP
that said the U.N. agency bun-
gled efforts to control the out-
break was “a work in progress,”
and “the facts have not been fully
checked.”
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