On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Tamar Raine wrote:

> speaking of global warming, how are those fires near you, gary?

Its gotten much easier to breeth around here the last few days.  The 
airquality is slowly getting back to what I'm used to.  Last I 
checked, most if not all the fires that were near me were 100% 
contained.

So everyone here have a great 4Th!!

See ya-Gary


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> 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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