Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  Meanwhile, new viruses such as west nile and the spread of such infections as Lyme disease pose additional challenges to the immune system that children a generation ago never had to face. "Not all infections have lessened," believes Fairweather. "There has to be something bigger at play."
As someone who has dealt with numerous autoimmune disorders since puberty, I look back over my own childhood and wonder if it could have been too clean. | | Mosquitoes that transmit diseases such as west nile virus thrive in warm weather. Simply lengthening the warm season will allow mosquitoes more time to reproduce, which means more generations of mosquitoes each year. Warmer climates may also allow mosquitoes to expand into areas that were too cold for them before. To make matters worse, the heat could also speed up the reproduction of the viruses the mosquitoes transmit.
Some viruses thrive in colder climates, others in warmer ones. | | The emergence of west nile virus in North America, and AIDS and SARS globally, Cunningham points out, arose from such travel and trade in an age when "travelers can be in the middle of a tropical jungle one day and commuting to their desk in London the next." With world air travel expected to grow at about 5 percent a year for at least the next twenty years, the global crisis of newly emerging infectious diseases is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
Others argue for the impact of global warming and hotter weather on growing rates of infectious diseases. | | A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE: CHANGING VIRUSES AND GLOBAL WARMING
One can hardly talk about viruses in the twenty-first century without grappling with the emergence of a number of virulent new pathogens such as the H5N1 virus (avian or bird flu), west nile virus, Ebola virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
These new potential plagues tend to result, in part, from the global spread of industrialization, which pushes humans toward ever-closer contact with wildlife as we encroach into what were once solely wildlife habitats. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Avian flu, SARS, anthrax, monkey pox, and west nile virus are all fresh enough that they make other relatively recent insurgents such as hantavirus, Lyme disease, multiple-drug-resistant TB, and even HIV seem like seasoned veterans. Emerging pathogens consume an ever-increasing amount of limited public health resources. The Centers for Disease Control have recently invested many millions of dollars in state-of-the-art command centers to track new outbreaks. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Occasionally a new disease appears: AIDS, SARS, west nile virus.... But in the absence of true diseases, diseases such as "prostate problems" and "dropped bladder syndrome" may be identified or reclassified. These can be counted on to provide a money stream by requiring one or more pills a day for successful treatment.3
• Marketing staffs are increasing while R&D rosters remain static or decline in corporations' race for unrestrained profits. This is nothing short of exploitation of disease for profit. |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts |  There are four basic categories of diseases that pose different kinds of threat to the American public: (1) the new diseases, including AIDS, SARS, bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease"), and "designer" bugs developed in labs; (2) the old standard diseases with developed immunity to antimicrobial drugs; (3) invading vector-borne exotics moving into new territory, such as dengue fever, malaria, west nile virus, and Lyme disease; and (4) viral epidemic influenzas.9 Some diseases apply in more than one category. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  We'll find ourselves under threat from diseases not known in our areas (like west nile virus in the Eastern United States). Plants and animals will invade regions they never could have survived in before, as the climate in those places becomes friendlier to them. Meanwhile, our efforts to protect fragile ecosystems will have to take into account that the weather that created those places is now changing. In a warming world, the only certainty is change.
Mountains serve as metaphors in the era we're entering. | | Public health authorities would confront growing caseloads of west nile virus, Lyme disease, and other diseases transmitted by insects lured by warmer temperatures.
Oregon's best economic opportunity? Public-private investment in what a U of O report refers to as a "forest of new energy technologies" for job and income growth, spawning businesses to help Oregonians adapt while generating revenues the state will need to address the impacts of climate change.
Welcome to the new state of Orefornia. |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts | | As the Long Emergency proceeds, and globalism winds down, this kind of travel and traffic will decrease, but much of the damage has already been done. west nile virus and dengue fever are already established in places where they had not previously been. They are probably there to stay. If anything, global warming will now likely extend their range.
AIDS has already made the crucial genetic leap from being a disease established in apes in a wild backwater of Africa to now being a public health catastrophe on every continent of the globe, with no cure in sight. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is of interest to know that in October 2002 the EPA altered the rules to stem the rapid spread of the west nile virus. It is now easier to spray over water with toxic substances to kill mosquitos without a permit as previously required by the Clean Water Act.13,80 It appears to be possible to make exceptions to laws that were specifically designed to protect the public.)
Later on, pyrethroid products such as Scourge and Anvil 10+10® were also used to control the mosquitos in the NYC area. These pyrethroids disrupt hormones and can mimic estrogens. | | In the past the west nile viral disease, in general, has been a mild illness.64'79'80 Was the chemical spraying a tragic example of extremely poor judgment? In time we shall find out. What occurred there demonstrates how easily this same situation could happen in your hometown since many cities are being or have been sprayed with the same or similar types of toxic chemicals and the residents are often misinformed, partially informed and, at times, totally uninformed. | | This is one of the chemicals repeatedly sprayed in NYC to help control mosquitos and the west nile virus.) (See Chapter 8.)
Many animals eat plants that make or contain estrogens. Estrogen-rich clover is reported to cause increased miscarriages and infertility in sheep.150
In Pigs
Moldy, estrogen-rich corn causes uterine overgrowth in pigs. It can feminize males, stop ovulation and produce infertility. | | Cavazos, Jamie, "Dog, Cat Health Unaffected by West Nile; Horses Need Vaccine," U.S. Army Medical Department. News release August 16, 2002. http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/armymed/news/releases/ petowners.htm.
67 TR-24, "Bioassay of Malathion for Possible Carcinogenicity" (CAS No. 121-75-5).
68 Mittelstaedt, Martin, "Study Finds Pesticides May Spur Disease," Globe and Mail, April 24, 2002.
69 Kiesecker, Joseph, Pcnn State Univ., Environmental Study, in the Proc. of the Nat. Acad, of Science, July 9, 2002.
70 Townsend Letter, May 2000.
71a www.getipm.com, Get Set, Steve Tvedten. 800.221. | | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases. west nile Virus Background, 2001. www.cdc.gov/ ncidod/dvbid/westnile/index.htm.
82 Go, Vera, et al., "Estrogenic Potential of Certain Pyrethroid Compounds in the MDF-7 Human Breast Carcinoma Cell Line," Env. Health Perspectives, 1999:107(3).
83 Abdel-Rahman, A., et al. | | The effects of the individual role of the west nile mosquito and the associated malathion and other chemical exposures plus the massive air pollution from the World Trade tragedy cannot be fairly determined. We have insufficient data, for example, to fairly evaluate the incidence and types of physical and emotional complaints before and after the malathion spraying. Is there an overlap of those who became ill after malathion or other chemical spraying and those who developed serious illness after exposures from the 9/11 Trade Center collapse? I would be surprised if this were not true. |
Mark Blumenthal
See book keywords and concepts |  Leaf extract is antiviral against Newcastle disease (NDV), herpes simplex, vaccinia, Semliki Forest, and west nile viruses (Herrmann and Kucera, 1967); flavonoids inhibit ileum muscular contractions and relax gastrointestinal smooth muscle (Lallement-Guilbert and Bezanger-Beauquesne, 1970; Hill and Aaronson, 1991); alcoholic extract is antispasmodic (Forster et al, 1980; Forster, 1983); and inhibits colonic motility (Taylor et al, 1984a). |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, known viruses like west nile Fever are appearing in parts of the world where they were unheard of before. This mosquito-borne virus, a member of the viral family that causes encephalitis, was first isolated in Uganda in 1937. It has since appeared throughout Africa, India, China, and parts of Europe. However, west nile virus (WNV) was never seen in the Western Hemisphere until late 1999 when its appearance in New York City caused eight deaths.
It seems there is no end to new and dangerous viruses. Among the most recent is TT virus (TTV). |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Then we must deal with the threats of terrorism; snipers; and SARS, west nile virus, and other newly minted infectious diseases, which only fuel our anxiety levels. Just thinking about it all makes us toss and turn well into the night, compromising the sleep we so desperately need to replenish our dwindling energy reserves. We yawn and stumble through our days, feeling simultaneously tired and wired.
Does this sound familiar? If so, you may be one of the millions of Americans who chronically expend more energy than they have, someone whose energy reserves are almost always tapped out. |
Philip Yam
See book keywords and concepts |  West Nile virus. Did the U.S. also unwittingly import bovine spongiform encephalopathy?
Millions of pounds of beef and beef products from countries later found to have mad cow disease landed on American shores: Between 1980, when BSE probably began emerging, and 2000, the U.S. took in about 1000 cattle, some 50,500 tons of beef, 11,500 tons of meat byproducts, including meat-and-bone meal, and 12,000 tons of prepared beef products. The U.S. imported 334 breeding and dairy cows from the U.K. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
See book keywords and concepts |  Their program, they said, had studied the significance of Epstein-Barr viruses extracted from Burkitt's lymphomas and postnasal carcinomas "through the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in the west nile District of Uganda." This, of course, was close to where Preston noted AIDS, Marburg, Ebola, and Reston viruses were be-
Fig. 22.3. | | Cancer Research Center, including more than 750 scientists and support personnel,"11 but here was evidence they ran the show in the west nile District of Uganda as well. Reflecting on what I had just read about Litton Bionetics being the world's principal supplier of monkeys during the 1960s and early 1970s (see the first four grant summaries in fig. 22.5),2 they obviously maintained a facility in this area—close to where OTRAG operated. Thus, I realized, the unnamed animal supplier who sent Marburg-infected monkeys to Europe was undoubtedly Litton Bionetics. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | In addition, ongoing outbreaks of fatal viruses such as Ebola in Africa in 1976, hantavirus in New Mexico in 1993, increasing fatalities caused by hemorrhagic dengue fever in Southeast Asia, and west nile fever in New York in 1999, startled the medical profession and shocked the world.
Somehow we forgot that new viral strains surface regularly and that science and modern medicine are not infallible all of the time.
To make matters worse, evidence mounted and suggested that viruses were causing other diseases. | | Louis encephalitis, California encephalitis, and west nile Fever. Most of these viruses cause (or can lead to) inflammation of the central nervous system. Other viruses that also cause central nervous system damage include the herpes viruses, HIV, poliovirus, and the mumps; however, these are not insect-borne illnesses.
Rodents, such as squirrels, mice, and rats, spread viruses in their droppings when they forage for food. The contaminated food is then eaten, or dried fecal matter contaminates the air and is then inhaled. The most notorious of rodent-related viruses is hanta. |
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