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Guinea Fowl Enlisted in Lyme Fight

..c The Associated Press

By MICHAEL HILL

MILAN, N.Y. (AP) - Bob Masciarelli's guinea fowl are fighting Lyme disease on

his front lawn.

Peck. Peck. Peck.

Birds nip at the turf, strut a bit, then bury their beaks again. Peck. Peck.

All day.

The guinea fowl are ridding Masciarelli's Hudson Valley property of the ticks

that carry Lyme disease by eating them. At least that's the idea.

Looking a bit like chicken-sized vultures, the guinea fowl are not pretty and

their loud cackle has a nails-on-chalkboard quality. But as ticks continue to

spread Lyme disease in verdant areas of the Northeast and elsewhere,

Mascierelli and many others claim the birds are worth the hassle.

``They're a pain in the neck, but they do the job,'' he said. ``I've got

dogs, I've got cats, I've got horses here, and my tick population is down to

zilch.''

Such raves have driven a demand for guinea fowl beyond their more traditional

role as gourmet entree (they're supposed to taste like pheasant). A new

generation of guinea fowl chicks called ``keets'' are now ready for market,

and retailers report brisk business.

``It's a growing business year by year,'' said Louise Dente, owner of Bedford

Village Pets in Westchester County. Dente expects to sell 300 keets this

summer, up 100 from last year. Dente sells to homeowners in New York and

neighboring Connecticut.

The theory is that since Lyme disease comes from bacteria carried by the deer

tick, placing guinea fowl on lawn patrol takes away a link in a chain that

has infected some 128,000 people nationwide since 1982.

Does it work? A consensus answer is that the fowl may indeed help, but they

are not a silver bullet.

``Using guineas to control ticks and bugs is nothing new, people have been

doing it forever,'' said Jeannette Ferguson, author of the guidebook

``Gardening With Guineas.''

Ferguson has tested the birds' taste for ticks by plucking them off dogs and

watching keets eat them up. Further evidence comes from her Waynesville,

Ohio, farm, where ticks have been scarce since she began keeping the birds.

However, Ferguson agreed with , a poultry expert at the

University of Florida, who cautioned against relying on guinea fowl for ``100

percent cleanup.''

Weld, executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation, was

aware of no relevant research but added: ``There's no way I can say it

doesn't help.'' The foundation's Web site offers more traditional preventive

measures, like wearing light-colored clothing and using insect repellents.

Even guinea fowl-owner Masciarelli said he still checks his family for ticks

when they come in from the yard. Occasionally, he'll find one.

On the plus side, the birds require little care once they are fully grown and

can roost outside all summer.

Some owners like Ferguson will give them year-round shelter. That helps keep

the birds safe from roaming dogs and foxes - animals with a well-known taste

for poultry.

There are problems, too. Masciarelli's flock of nine birds have scratched up

parts of his lawn hunting for grubs. One hen attacked his face when he got

too close to its eggs. Ungodly cackles can be heard in the middle of the

night when the birds are alarmed - a trait that has earned guinea fowl the

nickname ``farmers' watchdog.''

AP-NY-07-25-99 1201EDT

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Larry,

I wrote to Dr Edell about this article, here is what I wrote:

Dear Dr Edell,

I found the article about the doctor diagnosed with

Lambert-Eaton Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that causes debilitating

weakness by blocking signals between nerves and muscles, very interesting.

http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=32321

snip

News

Seeking a cure for his own rare disease, a doctor finds contentment

April 24, 2000

SEATTLE (AP) -- On good days, Dr. Parsons is a medical sleuth, seeking

a cure for a rare and baffling disease. On bad days, he stays in bed,

crippled by that same disease.

snip

I was wondering if the doctor ever considered a tick-borne disease as the

culprit for his medical problems. He mentioned in the article that he

recalled the onset of his illness followed a flu and that his white blood

cell count was low. He also stated that when given antibiotics for

pneumonia he was able to leave the hospital. I am thinking particularly of

the disease Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis. There is a test for this, and it

would be a good idea to rule this out, as the treatment is Doxycycline and

he may find dramatic results and improvement if this was the case.

Here is a website that will explain this disease further:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol2no1/walker1.htm

This is just a thought, I am only a patient, not a doctor, who was

infected with Lyme disease and HME in August 1996, I thought I was dying

until I found a doctor who tested me for this, all other doctors told me I

had Fibromyalgia, despite fevers, rashes, chills, stiff neck and severe

headaches. I am still very ill. I wonder if you could contact this Doctor

and suggest he be tested for HME, it can't hurt. I too suffer from

peripheral nerve damage, brain lesions and muscle weakness and his story is

just all too familiar.

There are lots of tick diseases occurring in Texas where he first became ill

before moving to Seattle.

Sincerely,

Marta McCoy

From: larryyenko <larryy@...>

>To All,

> I got this article off Dr. Dean Edell's web page.

>

>http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=32321

> Hope this helps.

>Larry NV

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Hi Mike,

I finally put a web site together and I added a link to your site on it. I'm

going to keep adding to it but I'd appreciate it if you'd put a link to it on

your site. It's http://daisyelaine_co.tripod.com/gravesdisease

Thanks, Elaine

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Hello Jerry,

Glad you enjoyed the article! We will be going back to CCF on Dec. 13 for our one year check up. We normally just zoom in and out with a visit to the transplant floor. But I will get with you as the time gets nearer to see if we can arrange something.

Thanks!

Cheryl & Randy

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Cheryl...... that would be great ....looking forward to it......Thanks

Jerry

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I read this article 2moons already - and I thought YEAY!! someone (a DOC

even!) realizes this.... how great. Its a good article.

wendy

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Oh good! I am glad ...I just wanted everyone to know that the medical field

may be taking steps towards progress....LOL

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I don't get it , how can you explain that I received a

healthy liver and the virus returned within 6 months

and no chemical or alcohol exposure within last 3

years and virus was detected by biopsy in 2 separate

areas of the new liver , which came from a person that

was on life support for over 2 months and had been

tested thoroughly . any way it will still kill you

" deader than hell " . all theories aside I was looking

at the light and it ain't as pretty as they say it is

..I say when your in a fight you use any weapon at your

disposal!

paki

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Hi Can't reply more than below until I find out who you are - Donthave a Hillbilly Tim as one of our patients.HCV is routinely found in post liver transplants. The reason is thathepatitis C is not a virus, but RNA particles from liver cells thathave been damaged by drugs, alcohol, chemicals, or any other source ofinflamamtion, even as a result of the immune battle inflammation thatgoes on when you are undergoing surgery, taking strong chemicals likeanesthetics, antibiotics, and even th immune system reaction to fightthe new foreign liver, in spite of immunosuppressive drugs (themselvesstrong chemicals).Therefore some of the cells in your new liver were scarred, maybe justa bit, and are now secreting particles that the test is picking up.By the way, the test they use called "viral load" or HCV RNA PCR hasnot been approved by the FDA - you can read this below the test resultif you get a

copy.AlanOn 5/19/06, Hillbilly Tim <knoxweb1@...> wrote:> i don't get it , how can you explain that I received a> healthy liver and the virus returned within 6 months> and no chemical or alcohol exposure within last 3> years and virus was detected by biopsy in 2 separate> areas of the new liver , which came from a person that> was on life support for over 2 months and had been> tested thoroughly . any way it will still kill you> "deader than hell". all theories aside I was looking> at the light and it ain't as pretty as they say it is> .I say when your in a fight you use any weapon at your> disposal!>

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I just received this article yesterday. I am not surprised. What we suspect, is

usually the

case. I told my husband, I don't think I should be considered paranoid about

the drug co

etc. ANYMORE!

Venizia

>

> this should be shocking but it isn't. this mentions those of you in

> Minnesota, Vermont, and Maine

>

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/24/minnesota-law-shed\

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more-light-on-drug-companies.aspx

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Does anybody know of an article on Asperger's and first day of school?

I think the author was Lavoie.

jan