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Re: Now Never returned to the wild



Why are some people of the belief that every micro/macro organism that
appears in a drainage is the next ebola?  Fishes do have immune systems
friends, even against unfamiliar diseases the slime coat is a thing of
wonder (just an example...don't send out tons of e-mails on slime coats
please!)  :)  Again, I would like to hear of major fish kills from
introduced diseases if anyone has the data.

Luke




On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Norman Dennis Edelen, Jr. wrote:

> If you really believe that once a disease gets into the wild that it will be
> transported just willy nilly by natural means, then why are you willing to
> take chance of introducing a disease where "water fowl fly from continant
> (sic) to continant (sic), turtles, aquatic mamals (sic) and other organisims
> (sic) migrate from stream to stream, and most water sheads (sic) are part of
> huge dranage (sic) systems that are all interconnected"?
> 
> Norm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moontanman at aol_com <Moontanman at aol_com>
> To: nfc at actwin_com <nfc at actwin_com>
> Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 8:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Now Never returned to the wild
> 
> 
> >No, I was trying to underscore that we are not the main or even a major
> >contributor to the spread of aquatic disiase. Water fowl fly from continant
> to
> >continant, turtles, aquatic mamals and other organisims migrate from stream
> to
> >stream, and most water sheads are part of huge dranage systems that are all
> >interconnected. All these things contribute to the spread of any aquatic
> >organisms much more profoundly than humans except eviromental degredation.
> >Polluted water and weakened immune systems of the fish that live in the
> >pollution give rise to new pathogens, It is a rare event for a pathogen to
> >have a major effect on heathy populations of fish in natural unpolluted
> >conditions (non-aquarium or unaturally crowded) I'm sure it occurs, but I
> >doubt humans have much influence one way or another.  By the way, I got to
> see
> >first hand this weekend a recovering watershed. I have reletives that have
> >managed to buy an entire water shead of a small creek, they have been
> working
> >hard to return the land to it's natural condition, and cleaning up this
> stream
> >and it's small tributaries were part of that, it is a wonderful place. No
> >trash, no sewage, all the trash dump sites have been cleaned up, and the
> wild
> >life is returning. had a great time!
> >
> >
> >Michael
> >
> 
>
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