
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, October 15, 1993                   TAG: 9310150039
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
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PEOPLE

A woman who had her tubes tied and a man who had a vasectomy have living proof that nothing's foolproof: an 8 pound, 5 ounce baby boy, their fifth child. "It's unbelievable," the father, Dan Skadeland, said Tuesday at Fostoria (Ohio) City Hospital.

After the difficult premature birth of their third child, Skadeland and his wife, Jennifer, decided they had enough children. Dan Skadeland had a vasectomy in 1990, but the couple had their fourth child the next year. Jennifer Skadeland then had a tubal ligation. The Skadelands' doctor, Erol Riza, said there is a 1-in-4,000 chance that tubal ligation will fail.

Just when you thought Michael Jordan had won it all, here comes Dr. Stanford Shulman with a new honor: a strain of salmonella.

Shulman, chief of infectious diseases at Children's Memorial Hospital, discovered the unique strain last winter and decided to name it after a unique athlete. He called it "Salmonella mjordan."

Jordan's agent, David Falk, accepted the honor reluctantly, and suggested that future organisms looking for names should look elsewhere.

by CNB