Posted on 06/13/2003 11:51:19 PM PDT by FairOpinion
State agriculture officials on Friday temporarily banned the transportation of six more animal species - including rabbits - to stop the potential spread of monkeypox into Michigan.
Imports of prairie dogs and Gambian rats were banned Wednesday. The order issued Friday added brush-tailed porcupines, dormice, rope squirrels, striped mice, tree squirrels and rabbits to the embargo list.
"Although we have not confirmed monkeypox illness in people in Michigan, we have several situations we are investigating," said Janet Olszew-ski, director of the Michigan Department of Community Health.
Under the order, the animals "cannot be transported, displayed, sold or in any other way distributed at exotic animal sales, swap meets, pet stores or any other venue," Olszewski said.
The order does not apply to taking any of the species to veterinarians, animal control officers or public health authorities.
It also makes certain exceptions for rabbits, which are included in the ban because of the apparent transmission of monkeypox from a rabbit to a person in another state, officials said.
This is the first time I heard of this. I was just reading that they got almost all the infected prairie dogs and thought that's good, and now it turns out there are infected rabbits and who knows what other animals running around...
And another article says there may be a new monkeypox case in Arizona. http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=1321628
I shouldn't laught but Michigan has so many squirrels and rabbits....
BTW, wherever did you get a copy of 'the plan'?
Enduring WISDOM from the underbelly ...
Assuredly, coming from one who has never bothered to study germ theory ...
Chapter title: Germ Theory of DiseaseThe germ theory of disease is the single most important contribution by the science of microbiology to the general welfare of the world's people, perhaps the single most important contribution of any modern scientific discipline. It also is the single most important contribution to the practice of modern medicine, essentially defining the term with the invention of antimicrobial chemotherapeutics. To gain a fuller appreciation of how far we have come, in this lecture we will briefly consider the history of the science of microbiology and the concurrent development of the germ theory of disease.
IntroductionFrom:One of the most bizarre Watchtower campaigns was against medicine [and science] in general and specifically the germ theory.
The crusade against medicine was not primarily a phenomenon only during the Rutherford era but was the dominant Watchtower view from the late 1880s to the early 1950s.
Hundreds of articles were published, primarily in the The Golden Age and its successor Consolation, which lambasted orthodox medicine and many of the basic conclusions of modern medical research.
Typical Watchtower comments include "sickness abounds . . . and the M.D.'s and dentists have waxed rich at the expense of suffering humanity" (Newcomb 1929:106). Watchtower writer Shelton stated that:
among the drugs, serums, vaccines, surgical operations, etc., of the medical profession, there is nothing of value save in an occasional surgicalprocedure.The Watchtower taught the function of germs was to serve as sanitary engineers to help keep the body clean. When disease occurs, the germs attack and break the tissue down into its various constituents. We thus blame the germs when they are only responding to the disease. The real problem is causing our body to become unhealthy by "constipation" and nerve pressure. In light of this "truth" the Watchtower criticizes the medical profession stating that this truth about constipation "is far too cumbersome for the twentieth-century experts of medical science, who, 'knowing better what is needful for us than the God who made us,' have devised costly nostrums to be injected directly into the blood stream by means of the syringe furnished with a hypodermic needle, which penetrates the tough skin provided by nature as a shield" (Parrett 1938: 12-13, paraphrase from Fitzgerald, 1938: 12-13)Their whole so-called 'science' grew out of Egyptian black magic and has not lost its demonological character.
By their own admission, more deaths are caused by their practices every year in this country than from any other cause. We shall be in a sad plight when we place the welfare of the race in their hand. Readers of The Golden Age know the unpleasant truth about the clergy; they should also know the truth about the medical profession, which sprang from the same demon-worshiping shamans (doctor-priest) as did the 'doctors of divinity'. . . medicine originated in demonology and spent its time until the last century and a half trying to exorcise demons.
During the past half century it has tried to exorcise germs. Its methods are the same in both efforts at exorcism, and instead of injuring the demon or the germ, the injury is often to the patient (1931: 727-728).
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The Harm that Results
The Watchtower's theory of disease was dangerous because it encouraged people not to take the steps necessary to deal with dangerous pathogenic organisms that kill and which have been responsible for the major plagues throughout history.
This now discarded line of thinking is incredibly embarrassing to the Watchtower Society today. They try to excuse it with the claim that "the light was not very bright" at this time. The light on this topic was bright for medical scientists and almost everyone else why was it so dim for the Watchtower?
If the Watchtower could be so wrong about this topic, could they not also be equally wrong about their health teachings today, such as that about blood transfusions? How many people died because of their teachings on germs, vaccines and blood transfusions cannot be stated, but surely it is in the tens of thousands (Reed 1996).
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