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Historic Jamestown’s Eagle Eat’g A Catfish

Posted by Susan in Virginia Wildlife on Dec 21st, 2010 | 0 comments

Virginia, Jamestown's Hometown Island Eagle, enjoy'g her breakfast of catfish...

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Wood Science and Technology at WVU

Posted by Susan in Virginia Wildlife on Dec 20th, 2010 | 0 comments

Introduction to the Forest Resources Management degree program in the Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, West Virginia University.

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Brain disease a slow goodbye – Utah hunter age 30 first victim of mad deer

Posted by Susan in Virginia Wildlife on Dec 14th, 2010 | 0 comments

"Terminally ill Utah hunter, age 30, could be the first victim of US 'mad deer' disease," read the headline of a press release issued last week from the Center for Food Safety in Washington, DC www.purefood.org Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) is showing up in the USA. It is caused by Prions, a type of protein that live in livestock and infect humans that eat food products of infected livestock. Prions also seem to cause Mad Cow disease. All blood from infected people is contaminated and spreads the disease if used in transfusions. There is no blood test to determine infection so blood banks can't screen for it. Offspring of infected livestock are born infected. Both parents and offspring can be slaughtered long before symptoms appear. i478.photobucket.com Your Brain on Prions, Note the Congestion of Blood Vessels "Human incubation is 20 to 40 years, but no one survives more than two years after Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) goes active. Unlike AIDS, CJD can kill almost all known species of vertebrates. Unlike bacteria or virus, Prions are not killed by several minutes of boiling, baking, chlorine, alcohol or by any known antibiotic or antiviral agent." "More Serious than AIDS: Creutzfeldt-Jakob" Now its turning up in W. VA Hunters turn up CWD in W.Va. deer herd by Farm and Dairy Staff CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Preliminary test results indicate the chronic wasting disease (CWD) agent was present in five hunter-harvested deer collected in Hampshire County, W.Va., during the 2008 deer ...

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