-A couple days ago I ordered bumperstickers that say, "My Carbon Footprint Is Bigger Than Yours". Can't wait to put it on my truck. :-)
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-From another website..."officials said at the current rate, the Global Mean temperature will rise 1.7 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years."I still think it might be too soon for Chicken Little... :-) Mike----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Shahriary" <shah11@xxxxxxxxxx>To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:37 PM Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Mo. issues tick warning - This is one of the many health-related consequences of global warming. I'm serious. See http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1102-disease.html Chicken Little was right! Dancing Strawberry --- k Sneed <sneed14@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/897E1D5ECEB29F23862572F20064FFC4?OpenDocumentMo. issues tick warning By Tina Hesman Saey <tsaey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 06/06/2007 Officials at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services are warning residents to be wary of ticks. A child in northeastern Missouri died May 23 of an infection with a tick-carried bacterium called Ehrlichia chaffeensis. That is one of three types of bacteria that cause the illness known as ehrlichiosis. All three types are found in Missouri. So far, the health department has confirmed 16 cases of ehrlichiosis and is investigating two other cases. On average, Missouri has about 9 cases of the diseases at this point during the year. Cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever have more than doubled this year. State health officials have confirmed 54 cases of the illness this season. In an average year, only 22 cases would have been seen by this time. Health officials have also had reports of 10 cases of Lyme-like disease and two cases of tularemia. Symptoms of the illness usually resemble the flu with body aches, tiredness, and fever, said Joyce Berkowitz, infection control practitioner at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever usually starts with a rash, but rashes appear in less than half of people with ehrlichiosis. The hospital has seen only two possible cases of tick-borne illnesses this year. Advertisement "We usually start seeing stuff when the kids get out of school and are in vacation mode," Berkowitz said. Brian Allan, a biology graduate student at Washington University, has been tracking ticks for four years. It's too early in the season to say if the increase in diseases from tick bites are due to a larger number of ticks. In Illinois, the Department of Public Health has had an increase in the number ticks reported by veterinarians, doctors and others, but people have not fallen ill at a higher rate than usual. The increase in human illness may be due to a greater percentage of ticks carrying disease, Allan said. The infection rate is determined largely by population fluctuations in animals that serve as reservoirs for the diseases. For instance, a large number of infected white-tailed deer last fall could lead to an increase human disease now, he said. White tailed deer carry Ehrlichia chaffeensis. So Lonestar tick larvae could have feasted on infected deer last August or September, picking up the infection. The ticks over-winter and emerge as nymphs between May and July. Ticks at the nymph life stage are most likely to transmit disease to people, because nymphs are small and easy to miss and people often don't feel the ticks crawling on their skin, Allan said. Nymphs take a blood meal, drop off the host and over-winter, emerging as adults the following April. Adult ticks may also infect people, but are more noticeable and account for only a small number of infections with tick-borne diseases, Allan said. ----------- For more information: The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services*www.dhss.mo.gov/TicksCarryDisease/*<http://www.dhss.mo.gov/TicksCarryDisease/>The Illinois Department of Public Health*www.idph.state.il.us/public/hbhome.htm*<http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/hbhome.htm>The National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page on Tick-Borne Illnesses*www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/list_tickborne.htm*<http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/list_tickborne.htm>Carol Strawberry"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." (William James)**************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw **************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from thislist, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw
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