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To: Dayuhan who wrote (37236)	9/5/1999 8:23:00 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<I don't know what histoplasmosis is, >> It's a nasty lung disease. I had to clean an alley and caught it from the dust from pigeon droppings. I may have quit hunting but I still shoot pigeons.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (37236)	9/5/1999 8:25:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Re: Histoplasmosis H. capsulatum grows in soil and material contaminated with bat or bird droppings. Spores become airborne when contaminated soil is disturbed. Breathing the spores causes infection. The disease is not transmitted from an infected person to someone else. from cdc.gov Not a good thing. Occasionally people are infected by histo after doing renovation work in attics of old houses. Also people who work around birds a lot. I think it's also a bit of a hazard for people who like caving, etc... Good reason to (at the very least) wear a dust mask when you have to muck around in places where guano and bird droppings are found. Guano aside...I've always liked bats... They fly around here at the farm in the evenings. There is a little path that I occasionally jog on out behind our barns. Last summer, if I went running on it just after sunset, a bat would always fly out and brush by my head with its wings as I got between an area where there are some low bushes. I don't know what that was all about, but I figured that it might be some territorial thing. However, my husband suggested that it might just be seizing the opportunity to catch a few of the mosquitoes that were probably pursuing me down the path. He's probably right because I've had the bats zip in close to me while standing on the back deck after dark and I know there must have been plenty of mosquitoes hovering around me at the time. BTW, when I was a kid, my friends and I used find dead bats the garden beside an old house with a Second Empire stype roof. I think they were tricked by its curving shape of the roof and used to crash into it and fall into the garden. Being kids, we weren't too concerned about diseases or wussy things like that, so we used to examine the bats that we found. Very fascinating little creatures... especially their wings...marvelously soft skin on the wing webbing and long fragile bones... amazing little animals. The fruit bats sound impressive.... I'd like to see something like that some time. Well, I'll be loading up the canoe in a few minutes and then I'm outta here for the day. Later.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (37236)	9/5/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Steven, what do you see when you see marine life? BTW, we saw a Nova I think it was about sea-horses, and there was a conservation project of them in the Phillippines I believe. Very, very interesting; using the fundamentally overfishing-technique locals to co-operate in sea horse mgmt. Very cool. I love positive stories like that. When people use intelligence and experimentation to make much out of very little. Are you familiar with the project? Sounds like it would interest you, so I'm betting you are. Because you're a smarty with your eyes open. The setting came off looking attractive. Are you accepted as you paddle around? Are there many dangerous criminals you can bump into? I mean, I know that sounds silly, but in some poorer countries, you do. It can be dangerous to be "out". Not if you don't run into them, but if you do..... I forget what the language is. There. Spanish? Oooh. Ignorance.