....greater looming danger the introduction of wolves has wrought upon our communities. You know they are an efficient and effective predator having drastically reduced the number of elk, endangered your safety and have killed many of your pets but now and even more menacing twist to pending environmental disaster brought to you by your foolish, inept and dangerous eco-friendly useful idiots. 62% of Idaho wolves carry a deadly tapeworm that is spreading throughout our region. The tapeworm is spread by wolf feces and is being ingested by all herbivores who graze upon the land. This includes deer, elk and cattle, the mainstay of our hunting and ranching economy. The infected dead spread the tapeworm to carnivores like your dog who may eat upon the carcass. The infection can end up in your gut and it can be fatal!

This alarming consequence of the wolf introduction has been kept from the public at large until now. Please come to the meeting and find out for yourself what the tapeworm introduction means for you and your livelihood, find out what is being done to protect your health and hear from experts what you can do to protect yourself and your livestock. Clay Dethlefson, President and Executive Director of the Western Predator Control Association will address the issues and your concerns.

Please read the article below for more information. Contact your neighbors, friends and county health and regulating officials who need to know and understand the situation. We are at a point where this tape worm introduction could rapidly become a widespread health emergency.

Please come find out if the government has covered this up. Find out what we can do about it!


“Predator Diseases and Impacts on Outdoorsmen and Outdoor Recreational Activities”

By Clayton [Clay] H. Dethlefsen, AS, BS, MBA, MMS, PI, PS,IT President and Executive Coordinator,

and

Dr. Jack K. Ward, DVM, Medical Director


In the last 15 years use of our outdoor environment has been severely impacted by the overwhelming expansion of predators, specifically Canis Lupus, the Gray Wolf. Our Northwestern area of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming has witnessed the increase of this predator from less than one hundred wolves to a population that as of December 31, 2009 was a minimum of 2,000 Wolves in 303 active packs. But, based on interviews with Fish Wildlife and Parks and Wildlife Service's Scientists, Directors and Legal Authorities, the totals are more probably nearer 4,000 animals and 600 active packs.

The impact of this Gray Wolf Population is not just limited to the ecologically rebalancing of our environment or to the killing of thousands of big game animals or the taking, “Without Due Process” of hundreds of our cattle, sheep and domestic animals. It has now risen to the “Status of Pollutant” as it now is infecting of our environment with a World Renown Public Health, Safety and Economic Problem, which is medically referred to as the A-typical Tape Worm, ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS.

As the Gray Wolf population has grown this Disease has become so well established that over 63% of the Gray Wolf Population has become infected. These infected Predators have conservatively injected an estimated 2.8 million infected Wolf droppings on our landscape. The question then is: “What does that mean to humans, our domestic pets, our Livestock Industry and our Big Game harvesting?”Very simply this means we cannot go about business “as usual.”

With our hunting seasons open, the most pressing need is to educate those of us that will be venturing out for birds, big game and other pursuits, so that we can recognize how things have changed, are changing, and what cautions we need to take. Our initial needs are to understand how the Tape Worm develops, re-acknowledge that its life cycle is firmly established in our environment, and that the Echinococcus Diseases are “ADDRESSED TO WHOM OR WHAT THEY MAY CONCERN.”

The Life Cycle’s short version: the Wolf excretes on the ground Tape Worm Eggs by its Scat. The Eggs adhere to vegetation, animal’s hoofs, paws, fur, muzzles, anus hair, etc., and enter our rural and urban zones, specifically our pastures; grazing, hunting and riparian areas; and our creeks, streams and rivers. From these sources the eggs are ingested through contact, consumption, and/or inhalation into Grazing Animals and often man. The Eggs then migrate into these hosts’ vital organs and evolve into Hydatid Cysts [larval stage], which are then consumed by Wolves as they eat their Prey i.e. Game, Livestock and Domestic animals. Thus, the life cycle is complete.

During the 14 years “Post Canis Lupus Introduction” our environment has been increasingly inundated with infected Wolves’ Scat. This means that thousands of Granulosus Eggs, that live from hours to years have been scattered all over. The stability of the Life Cycle readily confirms that hundreds of our big game animals and, as likely as not, other grazing animals have ingested this Zoonotic [able to be transmitted to Man] infection. All of this presents us with an existing; government created and condoned; reality that dictates prudent action and the taking of precautions that in 1994 were not required.

Hence, if you see Wolf Scat “Leave It Be,” even kicking it can cause aerosol ingestion. Watch where you walk and don’t step accidentally on Scat. Avoid contact with vegetation in scat sighted areas. Don’t drink water directly from creeks or streams. Look before you sit, remove your outer garments and clean/cover/bag your exposed clothes and boots before you get into your vehicle or enter your home. If your pet accompanies you don’t touch it without hand coverings such as surgical gloves. Don’t bring any environmentally exposed item or covering to you face and don’t eat without thoroughly sanitizing. Clean/cover your pets before you let them inside your auto and don’t let them into your house until they are sanitized. After your trip, thoroughly clean your vehicles and equipment, as well as yourselves.

If you are fortunate enough to take game remember to think and apply “Universal Precautions.” Don’t field dress it without using surgical type gloves [for big game those gloves that cover your arms to the shoulders are best], and use a nose and mouth covering. For big game it is suggested that you put on removable protective and preferably disposable clothing that is specifically carried for field dressing, and use a face mask that at least covers your nose and mouth. Remember, that even when capeing and boning big game with observable Hydatid Cyst you still have to avoid contact with Hydatid Cyst Fluid, especially if the shot penetrated an infected vital organ. Also, remember the game you are dressing can have Eggs embedded in its cape, so after removing the cape turn it inside out and place it in a plastic bag large enough to create an air seal

After field dressing an infected animal, do not leave the “Gut Pile” laying on the ground. It will only contribute to expanding the Tape Worm’s Life Cycle. Instead treat it as a “Biological Hazard” and air-seal bag it and dispose of it properly. Too, if you have taken game in a Gray Wolf area and are delivering it to a taxidermist, game processing locker or a packing plant alert their personnel as appropriate for their protection.

If you take game birds in Wolf areas, place them in separate sealable bags and air seal them with a zip or other tie before depositing them in your hunting vest. Always remove bulky outer garments, possibly place them in a plastic bag, and set them away from where you a dressing game, particularly big game. Avoid direct contact with feathers when cleaning game birds.

If, when you are field dressing your big game,you see in the vital organs whitish or reddish balloon shapes; DON’T PUNCTURE THEM! They may very well be Hydatid Cyst, which according to Dr.Shauna O’Meara, May 2010, can, by transmission of its fluid, cause the development of Hydatid Cysts in humans.

Lastly, always carry with you a first aid kit that contains, large septic cleansing cloths, sterile water for washing, surgical disinfectant, dry wipes for use after sterilizing, and the normal other items in full supply. Old kits that are half stocked are nearly useless.

For more complete and specific information or for a complete series of educational classes contact the WPCA at 406-363-1653.

Note: Field dressing kits, inventory permitting,are usually available from the WPCA and donations for our educational, research and political presentation programs are always appreciated, and they are taxdeductible.

Jim,
Sadly, wolf tapeworm gives yet another example of zoonotics - (see article by Dr. Brown and my response).
Roni
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FYI - Sent by Willie Soon, an interesting report on Asthma. R
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Thanks Willie.
My posting follows Dr. Brown's article.
Hope you're staying away from the computer and RESTING!!!
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:38:00 -0400
Subject: a good one ... Harold Brown: Breathless - Let the asthma blame games begin

ps to mama roni: this part of the science worthy of your attenton ...
(of course matt can tell us to be careful with all of such associations and misassociations etc)
A further paradox in this paradox-laden condition: Several recent studies, mostly in Europe, show that children born on a farm, and especially those in contact with livestock, are less likely to have asthma, even as adults. The reason is speculated to be their contact with bacteria associated with farm conditions, especially animals.
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/12921712/article-R--Harold-Brown--Breathless---Let-the-asthma-blame-games-begin?instance=special%20_coverage_right_column

Harold Brown: Breathless - Let the asthma blame games begin
by R. Harold Brown
Columnist The Marietta Daily Journal
April 25, 2011 12:00 AM | 193 views | 0 | 4 | |

Earth Day (April 22) has slowly expanded to Earth Week, and this year it brings to Georgia the administrator of the epitome of government “mission creep,” Lisa Jackson of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But don’t expect a celebration of this nation’s environmental advances. It’s more likely to be an indictment of industry, power plants and Georgians’ lifestyle choices (driving) for “asthma-causing pollution.”

This criticism happens every year as the May-September “Ozone Season” arrives. Newspapers tie high ozone days to asthma, as they have for nearly 30 years. Headlines such as, “Kids with asthma head indoors during smog season” reinforce the association. Unfortunately, it’s largely a myth, built mainly on statistical associations between high ozone on hot summer days and hospitalizations for asthma. Yet summer is the season of fewest asthma hospitalizations.

Hundreds of experiments show associations between ozone and asthma. Most show weak associations, probably confounded with unknown factors that affect asthma. Some studies of air pollutants showed no associations with asthma. A throw-away phrase in a recent publication by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a lot about the malady: “(T)he etiology of asthma is unknown ... ” Etiology is the “the set of factors that contributes to the occurrence of a disease.”

Singling ozone out as the cause is nearly impossible, even using complicated statistical models that “control for other factors.” Often, other controlling factors are unknown, especially in the large and diverse populations that are studied.

By far the best association is the change from 1980 to 2009 in U.S. asthma prevalence and the U.S. average peak 8-hour ozone concentration. The statistical correlation is -0.86 (0 equals no association, 1 is perfect.) But this correlation is negative: Even as ozone declined, asthma increased.

The simple interpretation is that cleaner air causes asthma. What it really shows, though, is the fallacy of cavalier interpretations of associations. Interpretations based on associations lead to conflicting facts. Jackson’s EPA estimated that one of the benefits of reduced air pollution under the 1970 Clean Air Act was 850,000 “asthma attacks” avoided annually by 1990. Yet the CDC reports the number of doctor’s office visits for asthma increased by about 3.9 million per year from 1975 to 1990-92. Did reducing pollution decrease or increase asthma? (Unfazed, the EPA last month proposed new power plant mercury and air toxics standards, aimed at “preventing 120,000 cases of childhood asthma symptoms.”)

The weakness of the ozone-asthma connection is shown by other associations. After all, asthma experts consider dozens of “triggers” and “modifiers” for asthma, ranging from dust mites and cockroaches to household income and even violence. The complications make definitive statements about asthma and its causes dicey. And physicians don’t usually tell patients to stay inside. They know that most triggers are indoors, where EPA has concluded air pollution is often much higher than outdoors.

Urban areas are expected to have higher asthma rates because ozone, other air pollutants and traffic are higher there. But a CDC study of 2005 U.S. data concluded that, “Asthma prevalence is as high in rural as in urban areas.”

This is further complicated by low asthma prevalence in some countries with high pollution. East Germany was found, in the early 1990s, to have much lower asthma prevalence than West Germany although its air pollution was at least twice as high. A global report on asthma in 2004 cited prevalence for asthma symptoms for U.S. adults as 10.9 percent, but 2.1 percent for China and 2.2 percent for Russia, countries not known for their clean air.

A 2001-04 CDC survey showed 14.6 percent of U.S.-born women reported that they had ever had asthma, versus 4 percent of women born in Mexico. For immigrants born elsewhere, it was 6.8 percent. The results were similar for men. The country of birth, and therefore the conditions of birth, was influential.

Associations with asthma are easy to find. Among Georgia counties, for example, it’s hospitalization rates and the percentage of land in cultivated crops. The correlation coefficient is statistically significant (+ 0.59) and as large as most of those for the asthma-ozone association. Yet nobody would conclude that crop cultivation causes asthma.

A further paradox in this paradox-laden condition: Several recent studies, mostly in Europe, show that children born on a farm, and especially those in contact with livestock, are less likely to have asthma, even as adults. The reason is speculated to be their contact with bacteria associated with farm conditions, especially animals.

It may be an example of the “hygiene hypothesis,” which holds that too “clean” conditions prevent childhood development of resistance to disease organisms or allergies and later cause serious problems. This may explain growing asthma rates as Americans moved from the farm and into cleaner houses. Clean houses are supposed to make children healthier, but perhaps that exposure on the farm strengthened earlier generations. It certainly holds more logic than blaming declining ozone and other air pollutants.

University of Georgia Professor Emeritus R. Harold Brown is an Adjunct Scholar with the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and author of “The Greening of Georgia: The Improvement of the Environment in the Twentieth Century.” The Foundation is an independent think tank that proposes practical, market-oriented approaches to public policy to improve the lives of Georgians. Nothing written here is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation or as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill before the U.S. Congress or the Georgia Legislature.


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Dr. Brown,
As an early farm girl, then city girl for nearly 40 years, then return to farm for 10, plus being a mother of 4, grandmother of 4, I can assure you my layperson's observations of your observations are in harmony.
There's no "pattern" to asthma. Period!
One either has a proclivity towards it or not.
I believe the same can apply towards allergies and ones organic/chemical/electrical makeup as to why some will or will not react to whatever.
For fact, I know a person can even have an allergic reaction to another's aura that will manifest itself as –for example -a migraine headache. Instead of moving far away from the progenitor object, we instead drug ourselves.
Then there’s Zoonotics and antibiotics. We see humans contract a debilitating ?something? that goes un-diagnosed right through to the vegetative state and grave.
I wonder if they may have contracted say, vesicular stomatitis – but un-detected by non-veterinarian doc, was given antibiotics for the flu. The antibiotic morphs with the virus – and walla – you have a new super virus.
We cowboys would call such diagnosis “hard mouthed” for contraire to one horse stopping when you give it a gentle notice on the bit, another would instead push harder into the bit and run faster.
This is why I love watching veterinarians watch a critter. They’re well aware of “misplaced” shows of pain. Example: A horse can have a pain in its shoulder, but show lameness in a hind right because of compensating for the genesis of of the pain.
Hope your points are emphasized far and wide!

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