Encephalitis outbreak

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Steven F

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I just read that more than 500 people in Nepal have been hospitalized with encephalitis and that 53 have died, all because of the expense of the vaccine and its unavailability in the remote areas. This tragedy is yet another reminder of how fortunate we are to live in this country -- and we take so much for granted.
 
I market a portable (backpack size), self-contained water purification system that can be run on 110V or 24VDC. It can literally suck in stock pond water and its output exceeds US purity standards! If you know of a charity or mission group which would take it to Nepal, I will provide units at my cost, no profit or markup and have them shipped directly to the organization.

My email is on the profile.

Stephen
 
That,s B.S.= were is the World Health Acc. now-Sorry Uncle Bill for the show of anger. This seems just like what NDN-AIM
Country is going through with the BIA.:-(

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Bill Montana
 
You mean what the BIA calls self-determination, and the local rez's Tribal Chairman calls self-extermination?
 
Hau Rusty,You Got that Right-why do You think this ndn got his butt out of Montana!;-)

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Bill Montana
 
Stephen, thanks for the offer but I don't think the offer will work. Getting it thru customs and into the hands of people who might use the system is a major effort with limited possibilities of success. And, where the unit would be most needed there is no 110 or 24dc. We would have to supply batteries also -- endlessly.

If the people could only be educated and motivated enough to boil and filter the water or chlorinate it we would be far ahead of the game. So far this has not happened.

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Whoops I should have said "12VDC". You know, I remember as a boy in Jordan one day my brother showed a man what a drop of local water looked like through a cheap microscope. "That's not water, it's soup!" he exclaimed.

Stephen

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Micah 6:8. Well worth the attempt!
 
Stephen, the "soup" comment reminds me of my own experience. I grew up in a very rural part of east Texas -- no electricity, not even gravel roads -- and when out hunting or rounding up stray cattle it was commonplace to take a drink of cool water from the nearest creek. You can imagine my surprise when in science class we looked at a sample of that very same water under a microscope! I never felt quite the same way again about drinking "nature's own."
 
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When I was a young teen and younger we used too go up into the hills around our small town. Many is the times I gently pushed the bugs and algae to the side in small pools of water in the very heat of summer to drink. The local cattle sometimes drank from the same little pools instead of walking 1/2 mile to the stock pond. I would have to think several times before doing such a thing now.
I believe that my immune system was much more primitive when I was that young as I never got sick from doing that. Then when we camped out many times there was no ice chest and when in the north country things were cooled in the creek, in oklahoma food was kept in the shade as much as possible. Way back then it's a wonder more people weren't sick from food poisoning.
We're no longer as strong a people as we were 50 years ago.




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Yvsa, interestingly, I read an article a couple of days ago that exactly supports what you said. The article said that we, as a society, are more sickly today because we have gotten "too sterile" -- our bodies haven't had to build up an immune system, so we're not as able to resist disease as we once were. The whole point of the article was that parents should not be so obsessive about keeping their children spotless -- let'em play in the dirt and the mud and handle a few creepy crawly things -- these are the experiences that develop our immunity.

 
There's some truth to that, and there are a number of other factors affecting our immune systems now that weren't in the past -- especially radiation; the fallout from the atomic bomb testing in the fifties and sixties will be suppressing our immune systems for many generations to come, not to mention more recent bomb tests on a smaller scale by various countries and leaks from nuclear power plants etc. Some of the chemical pollutants in our air and water and food suppress the immune system, too.

But in spite of all that ... if you look at the death rates from disease from a hundred years ago, before we started chlorinating the water supply -- especially for children -- children got all kinds of diseases and they either developed immunity or they died. Too many of them died.

Ah, the good old days ... my grandfather used to talk about how they had a water pump in the schoolyard with a dipper hanging from it and they all drank from the same dipper and "It never hurt us." I don't think I ever did get it through to him that it did hurt many of them. Every time one kid got sick the whole school got exposed to it, and some of them died of it.

-Cougar :{)
 
The problem with a lot of that stuff that "makes you stronger" is that all too often it kills you outright.
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