Comments on: Animal Diseases: Symptoms of a Sick Planet?

By: ahsan razzaq

ahsan razzaq — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:51:18 +0000

i want to know about the different symptoms of disease in dairy animals and there prevention also. you can send this to my mail address
amratsari1940@yahoo.com
i will wait for answer thanks

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:04:41 +0000

I’m just a frustrated wannabebeekeeper. I used to live in a neighborhood where I had two neighbors within a block of my backyard who maintained honeybee hives.
Then I moved and a few years later noticed not any bees around my flowers, and garden and lots of blossoms on my zucchini and tomatoes, but not much fruit setting on. Finally, I decided, even though afraid of beestings, etc. to try my hand at beekeeping. Within a month of purchasing my first hive I had animal control people out twice, police etc. and I still live in the same suburban town! I moved my hive to a friends farm and bought some acreage next too it. I placed my hive near the electric fenced portion of my soon to be owned property. A few weeks after we managed to get the electric fence to work and my bees went nuts. I grew up around electric fences. I would never have located the hive where it was touching the fence yet everyone tried to persuade me that the colony left my hive because it had been eletrified by the fence. So the next year I bought a new queen and starter colony and tried to start over. People tried to tell me that this colony disappeared because I didn’t feed it enough sugar water, etc. I couldn’t buy a new colony last year (2007) because the local company where I purchased my hive and bee colonies went out of business (Mid-Continent) I just learned about neonicitinoids, and the German ban. How bad does it have to get? Autism in children, Alzheimer’s in the aged. We eat food and these products are used on wheat, barley, sugar beets, and farmers don’t even have to use the product the second year and the pesticide doesn’t have to be reapplied-enough remains in the soil to keep the insects away- This stuff affects more than honeybees.

By: fred

fred — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:56:32 +0000

This content was cobbled early in the unfolding of WNS when caves found with the condition were also caves frequented by human visitors. Since those early days, infected caves NOT visited by humans have been found. So the term LIKELY was appropriate to our understanding when there was high correlation with human visits and infected caves. That correlation is not so high now, so I would change LIKELY to POSSIBLE.

And of course, caving organizations realize this potential and are cooperating with efforts to restrict visits to infected or potentially infected caves until we have a better understanding of causes–microbiotic, climatic, biochemical or otherwise.

By: Cate

Cate — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:40:48 +0000

(Sigh) been watching both the bats and the bees and feel just sick to think of two such stellar and remarkable species being battered (and possibly wiped out) by disease. A world without bats and honey bees is just too awful to contemplate – I love them both.

By: Larry Hunsucker

Larry Hunsucker — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:21:12 +0000

The question in my mind is: how long will we watch nature collapsing around us before the human “colony” does the same?

I’ve been told, however, that I am a big pessimist. I would argue that it’s the pessimists that are typically prepared when it all hits the fan.

Larry