New Zealand is considering banning cats and not just because they are killing endangered birds.
Science Daily brought two stories of how microbes carried by domesticated animals are altering the human gene pool. On dogs:
Here is the really creepy part: these toxins are crossing the blood/brain barrier allowing bacteria from mice and dog feces to infect the hearts and brains of children in Mexico City. Higher dog concentrations led to increased rates of infection. The researchers concluded that:
Science Daily brought two stories of how microbes carried by domesticated animals are altering the human gene pool. On dogs:
Rodolfo Villarreal, Juan Palacios, Keith Parker and Lilian Calderon carried out the study, "Gene inflammatory expression profiling in right versus left ventricles in young urbanites: What is the long-term impact of myocardial inflammation in the setting of air pollution?" The researchers are from the University of Montana (Palacios, Parker, Calderon), the Instituto Nacional de Pediatria in Mexico City (Calderon) and the Big Sky High School in Missoula, Montana (Villarreal).Missoula and Rapid City have long histories of wood-burning stoves and air stagnation alerts.
Here is the really creepy part: these toxins are crossing the blood/brain barrier allowing bacteria from mice and dog feces to infect the hearts and brains of children in Mexico City. Higher dog concentrations led to increased rates of infection. The researchers concluded that:
•polluted air can create inflammation, even in the hearts of young individualsOn cats, Science Daily says:
•the right ventricle responds differently than the left
•endotoxins play a role in the inflammation
A number of studies also confirm that mental diseases like schizophrenia, depression and anxiety syndrome are more common in people with toxoplasmosis, while others suggest that toxoplasmosis can influence how extroverted, aggressive or risk-inclined an individual's behaviour is.
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It is not wood burning stoves, it is Meralatt and other factories near the city dump that are clogging the air. The air quality monitoring site is on the west side, far above the dust factories of Lien, Hills, GDC, and BHP.
Blue Marble chart: cats killing billions of birds, wind turbines kill only hundreds of thousands.
Microbes even surf on hurricanes: Smithsonian.
it just gets worse. Missoula Red Tape:
"In Missoula, a former city council member is comparing Obama to Hitler, and a citizen wants only people who own property to vote on the proposal about secondary dwellings, ADUs*."
Dogs kill billions and harass wildlife, too: Outside Mag.
Update: toxoplasmosis has become a serious health emergency in Missoula according to the Indy.
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