Digest Number 3507 throat problems

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any help for a sensation of something stuck in my throat? Nothing there but it feels like it. Any thoughts about something to do

 

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Monday, June 23, 2008 10:18 AM

Digest Number 3507

 

 

 

 

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1. Report: Losses could top $4B if outbreak happened at proposed lab ne NEWS FROM THE TIPI

 

2. Owning Rain? NEWS FROM THE TIPI

 

3a. Re: synthetic vs. natural thyroid medication Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum.

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Report: Losses could top $4B if outbreak happened at proposed lab ne

Posted by: "NEWS FROM THE TIPI" cherokee419 cherokeessmokesignals

Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:10 am (PDT)

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/062108dnnatoutbreak.251ff69b.htmlReport: Losses could top $4B if outbreak happened at proposed lab near Texas livestock San Antonio is one possible location for new site of research facility 10:06 AM CDT on Saturday, June 21, 2008Associated Press WASHINGTON ­ The government acknowledged that an outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations being considered for a new high-security laboratory - an event it considered highly unlikely - would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than an outbreak from the isolated island lab where such research is now conducted. Video Study: Animal disease outbreak at proposed lab sites would be costly 06/21/2008 The 1,005-page Homeland Security Department study, released Friday, calculated that economic losses in an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease could surpass $4 billion if the lab were built near livestock herds in Kansas or Texas, two options the Bush administration is considering. That would be roughly $1 billion higher than the government's estimate of losses blamed on a hypothetical outbreak from its existing laboratory on Plum Island, N.Y. The administration is studying the safest place to move its research on such dangerous pathogens from Plum Island to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising concerns about a catastrophic outbreak. A final choice is expected by late fall. The foot-and-mouth virus does not infect humans but could devastate herds of cattle, swine, lambs and sheep. The five locations the U.S. is considering are Athens, Ga.; Manhattan, Kan.; Butner, N.C.; San Antonio; and Flora, Miss. A sixth alternative would be construction of a new research lab on Plum Island. That option is considered less likely because the administration spent considerable time and money scouting new locations and because of financial concerns about operating from a location accessible only by ferry or helicopter. Economic losses in an outbreak would exceed $3.3 billion if the new lab were built in Georgia, North Carolina or Mississippi, the report said. It calculated losses of $2.8 billion in an outbreak from Plum Island. The Homeland Security official in charge of the study, Jamie Johnson of the Office of National Laboratories, said it sought to identify specific risks to each candidate location. "What the EIS (environmental impact statement) concludes is that the likelihood of release of foot-and-mouth disease is extremely low," he said. "However, in the event that foot-and-mouth does get out, what does that mean to these sites?" The new study concludes that risk would be low to nonexistent that an accident or terrorist attack would result in the outbreak of a dangerous pathogen at any of the sites except in case of a fire and explosion. Such a fire and explosion would pose a moderate risk that virus or disease could spread to nearby livestock or wild animals. The threat from fire and explosion would be diminished for the government's isolated laboratory on Plum Island "due to the low likelihood of any disease getting off of the island," the report said. Also Online Link: Homeland Security Department's report The new National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility would replace the existing 24-acre research complex on Plum Island, which is about 100 miles northeast of New York City in the Long Island Sound. Besides foot-and-mouth disease, researchers also would study African swine fever, Japanese encephalitis, Rift Valley fever and the Hendra and Nipah viruses. Construction would begin in 2010 and take four years. The new study expresses the government's confidence it could avoid any outbreak. But it also cautioned that "should a large release occur there is considerable opportunity for the virus to cause infections and become established in the environment beyond the facility boundary." A simulated outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease - part of an earlier U.S. government exercise called "Crimson Sky" - ended with fictional riots in the streets after the simulation's National Guardsmen were ordered to kill tens of millions of farm animals, so many that troops ran out of bullets. In the exercise, the government said it would have been forced to dig a ditch in Kansas 25 miles long to bury carcasses. The new study said U.S. economic losses from an outbreak could ultimately be higher than the $5 billion suffered by Britain in 2001, when an epidemic forced the government to slaughter 6 million sheep, cows and pigs. ___ Associated Press writer Sullivan in Washington contributed to this report.

 

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Owning Rain?

Posted by: "NEWS FROM THE TIPI" cherokee419 cherokeessmokesignals

Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:09 am (PDT)

Lest you wake up on this fine summer morning thinking all is right with the world, government has only our best interests at heart, and yada, yada, yada, I feel compelled to point out that in Washington State - perhaps one of the best know wet spots in the Universe, state officials are busily making up rules to govern the collection of rainwater.OLYMPIA - To clarify regulations governing the collection and use of rainwater, Ecology is seeking the public's help in drafting a statewide rainwater rule. Three open house sessions for education and public discussion about collecting rainwater for beneficial use are scheduled this month in Everett, Lacey and Wenatchee. Ecology doesn't require homeowners to obtain water right permits to collect and store small amounts of rainwater. The new rule for the first time would define how much rainwater can be collected and used before a permit is required. The rule isn't intended to regulate storage and release of rainwater when no "beneficial use" will be made of the water. Under state law, beneficial uses include recreation, irrigation, residential water supplies and power generation. Call me a riparian radical, if you will, but to my way of thinking, if rainwater falls on my property, then it's my rainwater to do with as I will. Simple as that.

 

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Re: synthetic vs. natural thyroid medication

Posted by: "Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum." bettym19 drbettymartini

Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:51 am (PDT)

Please be sure you do not use anything with aspartame. It triggers hypo and hyperthyroidism. It is discussed in Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com H. J. Roberts, M.D. It's also caused by fluoride.I highly suggest you read the book, "Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You can't Live Without It" by David Brownstein, M.D. On page 129 it discusses Iodine and the Thyroid Gland, and says "Iodine is an essential ingredient in all of the thyroid hormones. T4 (thyroxine) contains four iodine molecules. T3 (triiodothyronin) contains three iodine molecules. Without sufficient iodine supply, the thyroid gland is unable to make thyroid hormones in adequate amounts.""The thyroid gland cannot optimally function in an iodine deficient state"... clipBettywww.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and www.wnho.netAspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartameAspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners At 01:06 AM 6/23/2008, bikerbillie (AT) icehouse (DOT) net wrote:>I also take Armour Thyroid. It is derived from pork. My accompanying>brochure said so.>> > I am confused on the best way to treat hypothyroidism I took Synthroid> > for several years and in my quest to avoid synthetic drugs I switched> > to Armour Thyroid. However, I eat a mostly vegetarian diet and I am> > concerned that the Armour Thyroid is bovine derivative. Please share> > your opinions.> >> >

 

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