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To: Kid Rock who wrote (105868)	6/10/2005 3:54:03 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Probably. The information this writer is feeding me is actually extremely upsetting to me. She is quite brilliant. I can't wait for her book to come out. But actually it is terribly difficult information to process. The tests were purposely skewered. There are so many people who have moderate to severe health issues as a result of tickborne infection. When you think about the extent of the morbidity. It is terrifying. What is also terrifying is the collusion among some of the researchers, the CDC, the insurance companies (to treat a bad case you literally need sometimes a year of IV, or about $50,000 worth of antibiotics), and also as I said, those who live there--real estate interests, tourism interests, all those collude to not admit how bad the problem is. It isn't just a '3 week' illness. Nope. There are some serious coinfections. Babesiosis for instance is basically like malaria. For instance, in southeastern connecticut, she informed me today: Peter Krause of Uconn with Spielman of Harvard tested the blood of Yale students from various towns in CT from the Sixties EVERY SINGLE YEAR thru the year 2000 or so. The data is meticulous and extensive. There is a sudden appearance of babesiosis in SE CT around maybe 1985 or so and then it goes up slowly every single year until, by the mid or late 1990s there is almost as much babesiosis in SE Ct as Lyme. The two are now more or less equivalent. It is very solid and scary stuff. --- My history is that I got it on a visit to an SI member that is friends with E. I began to research it extensively but even I did not do 1/10th the research this brilliant and brave writer did (whose family was crushed by lyme and babesia for a good 10 years). So E may think the deer are huge rodents but they're worse. They're weapons of mass destruction in their own way, along with the field mice, and of course, the unwillingness of various parties to admit the reality. It is indeed a harsh reality. The information is slowly surfacing though and that's good.

To: Kid Rock who wrote (105868)	6/11/2005 11:09:22 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Do people usually leave their dogs out at night in Connecticut? The reason that I'm asking is that the recent research, and all of the guidance coming from the Humane Society, is that dogs want to be closer to their humans than being outside at night, and that they are miserable out there and that they should sleep inside with their people. Which also solves the barking dog issue that disturbs a lot of people during the night. I'm wondering if this relatively new advice might also be reducing the number of dogs outside late at night. I know there are no dogs out at night in our neighborhood, for example, and the neighborhood is just filled with dogs. When I was a child I remember that dogs did live outdoors, and also roamed neighborhoods, where now the owners leash them and take them for walks and to the dog park.