How are the fires near you, Mag?













On 7/2/08, Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> speaking of global warming, how are those fires near you, gary?
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gary Peterson <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 10:52:11 PM
> Subject: FW: scarey (fwd)
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> Hi all,
>
> So don't want to freak anyone out here, but found this in my work
> email and thought I would pass it on.  While at first read, the
> contence here might be a little extreme I think in today's world, the
> more info we all have on a topic like this wheather you agree with
> this or not doesn't matter.  I think what matters is the info is made
> avalable to all of us to take as much or as little as we want from it.
>
> Thanks-Gary
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> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:33:16 -0700
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:33:12 PM
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> Expert says worms and parasites drain U.S. poor
>
> By Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorTue Jun 24, 3:09 PM ET
>
> Diseases caused by worms and parasites are draining the health and
> energy of the poorest Americans, an expert said on Tuesday.
>
> And diseases associated with the developing world, such as dengue fever
> and Chagas disease, may become a bigger problem for the United States as
> the climate changes, said Dr. Peter Hotez of George Washington
> University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington.
>
> "The message is a little tough because they are not killer diseases --
> they impact on child development, intellectual development, hearing and
> sometimes even heart disease," Hotez said in a telephone interview.
>
> He said the diseases help to keep people mired in poverty, as infections
> may last years, decades or even lifetimes.
>
> "Throughout the American South during the early twentieth century,
> malaria combined with hookworm infection and pellagra (a vitamin
> deficiency) to produce a generation of anemic, weak, and unproductive
> children and adults," Hotez wrote.
>
> The parasitic diseases are having similar effects now, he said.
>
> Hotez reviewed nine diseases affecting at least 10 million Americans for
> a report in the journal Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical
> Diseases, which he also edits.
>
> "These diseases occur predominantly in people of color living in the
> Mississippi Delta and elsewhere in the American South, in disadvantaged
> urban areas, and in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, as well as in certain
> immigrant populations and disadvantaged white populations living in
> Appalachia," he wrote.
>
> They include ascariasis, the most common human worm infection. It is
> caused by a parasitic worm that lives in the intestine, and infected
> just under 4 million people in 1974 according to the last survey, in the
> South and Appalachia.
>
> DOG DROPPINGS
>
> Toxocariasis, a roundworm parasite transmitted in dog droppings,
> infected up 2.8 million poor black children living in inner cities, the
> South and Appalachia, Hotez said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control
> and Prevention estimates these roundworms, which can cause intestinal
> illness and blindness, infect up to 14 percent of the U.S. population.
>
> Strongyloidiasis is caused by a threadworm that lives throughout the
> body and infects 68,000 to 100,000 people. It may cause a hyper-immune
> reaction in some people.
>
> Cysticercosis caused by the pork tapeworm and giardiasis, a diarrheal
> illness caused by a one-celled parasite, are also common, Hotez said.
>
> One threat to babies is cytomegalovirus, which infects 27,002 newborn
> annually, causing deafness and mental retardation.
>
> "It's amazing what we tolerate," Hotez said. He noted the United States
> spends $1 billion a year preparing for outbreaks of diseases that have
> not occurred, including smallpox, anthrax and avian influenza.
>
> "But these (other) diseases are occurring among voiceless people," he
> said. "It's an unintended form of racism in a sense. We need to make
> these disease household words."
>
> Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, infects as
> many as 8 to 11 million people in Latin America and may become a U.S.
> threat, Hotez said. "In Louisiana, almost 30 percent of the armadillos
> and 38 percent of the opossums are infected with T. cruzi, and a case of
> Chagas disease was recently reported in post-Katrina New Orleans," he
> wrote.
>
> "In the coming decade, global warming and increased flooding in the
> region could combine to promote dengue and Chagas disease epidemics
> among the poor in Louisiana."
>
>
> Dengue, carried by mosquitoes, can sometimes cause a deadly hemorrhagic
> fever and has been reported in Texas.
>
>
> (Reporting by Maggie Fox; Editing by Julie Steenhuysen and Doina Chiacu)
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