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["loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>]

Ginda,

I always wondered about the role of disease in the disappearance of my
Golden Toads.  The area I lived in in Costa Rica was visited by thousands of
biologists over the years, many of whom collected herps and other biological
material from all over the country.  Perhaps one of them introduced a
disease from some other amphibian population.  It seems odd, though, that a
disease would completely overwhelm a species--if an animal is susceptible to
a disease aren't there usually at least a few resistant ones in a
population?

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <list@ginda.us>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Amphibian Decline


> Another cause of increased disease in amphibians is travel.  Travel of
> people, travel of plants, travel of clods of dirt, travel of insects,
> and even travel of amphibians.  Just as Europeans brought new and
> deadly diseases to the American Indians, some of the disease pressure
> on amphibians is caused by old diseases in new places.  "New Scientist"
> had a rather depressing article about this a year of two back.
>
> Ginda
>
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 12:15 PM, DocKW@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I am of the opinion that most disease if either genetic origin
> > (weakness) or
> > host resistance related.  Host resistance can and probably relates
> > directly to
> > the burden it has  on it's resources due to environmental load
> > (mercury,
> > chemicals/pesticides, air pollution)  Keep in mind many chemicals used
> > in daily
> > life are not considered to be related to pesticides , yet have been
> > shown to
> > accumulate in our bodies and put a strain on the detox systems (liver
> > and
> > kidneys).   If you remember the product
> > called Scotch Guard....was removed from use because they found
> > increasing
> > amounts of this stuff in the body fat of nearly everyone in the
> > USA.....and then
> > decided we didn' t need that there to inaugurate some disaster later
> > on when
> > it  was in concentrations great enough to affect our health.  In
> > reality, it
> > already has affected our health by adding to the bioburden all around
> > us.  This
> > is just one product....and there are thousands.
> > The whole idea of cancer and degenerative diseases (or a fungus) is
> > based on
> > people just catching the disease, whereas, the truth may really be
> > that we
> > have burdened our bodies so much that we start a breakdown process
> > because we can
> > no longer detox.
> > The amphibians may be like the canary in the mine...just something we
> > can see
> > succumbing to the toxins all around us.
> > Just my 2cents worth
> > Karl W. Olson, D.M.D.
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