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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN//2.0"> <html> <head> <title>AR-NEWS Digest</title> </head> <BODY bgcolor=fbfaea text=#211818 link="#190748" alink="#FFFFEF" vlink="#401C92"> <center> <IMG SRC="IMAGES/HEAD.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/head.gif" USEMAP="#toplinks" BORDER="0"><BR> <img src="IMAGES/YCBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/ycbar.gif"><a href="../INDEX~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/index.html"><img src="IMAGES/HOMEBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/homebar.gif" border=0></a><br></center> <map name="toplinks"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="345,27,393,54" href="../../../tppmsgs/msgs0.htm#14" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/envirohome.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="458,7,512,27" href="../SUPPOR~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Support.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="401,7,446,26" href="../SEARCH~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/search.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="352,7,386,26" href="../ORGS~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Orgs.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="298,7,337,25" href="../NEWSPA~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/newspage.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="211,7,286,27" href="../SUB~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/sub.html"> </map> <center><TABLE cellspacing=15 border=0> <TR> <TD width=50 align=center> </TD> <TD width=400 align=left> <!-- PAGE CONTENT GOES BELOW --> <pre> AR-NEWS Digest 577 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Wonder Bread lures back escaped bison by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 2) Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease strikes 16-years after contamination by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 3) Wild boars attack chemical plant by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 4) AIDS not cured by drug cocktail treatments by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 5) (Aust)Chicken Warfare[and pork too] by bunny <rabbit@wantree.com.au> 6) re (Aust)Chicken Wars by bunny <rabbit@wantree.com.au> 7) Norway's top whaling boat sinks by Hillary <oceana@ibm.net> 8) Bishops to go Meatless? by Hillary <oceana@ibm.net> 9) More research done on humans by cenobyte <cenobyte@technologist.com> 10) A plea for homeless cats and dogs.... by Horgan <horgan@sprintmail.com> 11) [Fwd: ANTI-HUNTING DEMO IN KINGSTON] by Peter Muller <Peter.Muller@worldnet.att.net> 12) Thanksgiving No-Turkey "Turkey" by LMANHEIM@aol.com 13) (US) Poultry Farmers Want More Rights by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 14) National Enquirer carries story about Nadas by "Bob Schlesinger" <bob@arkonline.com> 15) International Boycott of some Oregon Businesses Announced by "Bob Schlesinger" <bob@arkonline.com> 16) 11/15/97 NJARA Fur Demo by "veegman@qed.net" <veegman@qed.net> 17) Science for sale by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 18) Seal pups dying by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 19) Lobster escapes the pot thanks to his color by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 20) 1. Old-boy network threatened, researchers run scared by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 21) 2. Congress bails out the science establishment by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:33:44 -0800 From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Wonder Bread lures back escaped bison Message-ID: <346D3438.59B3@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wonder Bread lures back escaped bison The Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (November 14, 1997 10:47 a.m. EST) The guy who sang about giving him a home where the buffalo roam wasn't thinking of Oakland. But nine bison did just that -- until the Wonder Bread lured them back. The animals escaped from their 17-acre enclosure at the Oakland Zoo on Tuesday and took a romp through a surrounding park. Zoo workers coaxed them back 45 minutes later with a trail of Wonder Bread. The creatures wandered only a few hundred feet to munch on a patch of poison oak and a field of California native grasses. Zoo officials said the bison apparently ambled through a gate at the top of the enclosure. The gate is usually double locked, but one of the locks was missing, and the second had been opened for reasons unknown, spokeswoman Allison Lindquist said. The buffalo did not wander into any yards or endanger anyone. Still, said neighbor Patricia Yerger, "We need to get a fence. Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:37:10 -0800 From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease strikes 16-years after contamination Message-ID: <346D3506.548B@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fatal brain illness seen as long as 16 years after graft Reuters ATLANTA (November 14, 1997 01:06 a.m. EST) Patients who received contaminated grafts during surgery have developed fatal Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease as long as 16 years later, health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 61 cases of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD) have been linked worldwide to dura mater grafts manufactured by a German company since 1979. One of 43 graft-related CJD cases in Japan involved a patient who developed the rapidly progressive fatal illness 16 years and one month after receiving a dura mater graft, the agency said. The average among the 43 patients was approximately seven years. "The maximum latency period from the time of exposure to the time patients had onset of CJD was 16 years," CDC epidemiologist Dr. Ermias Belay said. The German manufacturer, B. Braun Melsungen AG, began screening donors for the brain-destroying illness in 1987 and stopped mixing dura obtained from different cadavers in its product, called lyodura, Belay said. The product substitutes for the tough fibrous membrane covering the brain or spinal cord, but it has not been licensed for marketing or distribution in the United States. "There is always this inherent risk that CJD could be transmitted through this kind of product, especially if the dura mater is obtained from a patient who has developed CJD or who subsequently develops CJD," Belay said. Scientists have suggested an association between a variant form of CJD reported in the United Kingdom and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the so-called "mad cow disease" that has infected about a million cows in Britain since 1985. Both illnesses belong to the same group of degenerative neurological diseases. No cases of the variant CJD or BSE have been found in the United States. The CDC has said there is no direct evidence that BSE can spread to humans. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease afflicts only about one person per million and is most often found in patients 55 to 65 years of age. The CDC said 10 to 15 percent of CJD cases are inherited. A University of Kentucky researcher suggested earlier this year that eating squirrel brains could cause CJD. Cases have also been linked to the use of contaminated corneal transplants, electrode implants and the receipt of human growth hormone, the CDC said. --By MIKE COOPER, Reuters Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:38:02 -0800 From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Wild boars attack chemical plant Message-ID: <346D353A.3CDF@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Wild boars attack chemical plant Copyright ⌐ 1997 Reuters RABAT (November 14, 1997 11:53 a.m. EST) Two wild boars burst into a phosphoric acid plant near Casablanca, injuring one worker and causing panic among the staff, the Moroccan daily l'Opinion said Friday. It said the two animals, probably fugitives from a reserve some 45 miles south of El Jadida, stormed into the plant Tuesday morning. Hundreds of workers fled from the huge rampaging beasts, halting work at the plant for several hours, the newspaper said. Police officers called in forest rangers, but they arrived after the boars had left the plant. Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:39:28 -0800 From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: AIDS not cured by drug cocktail treatments Message-ID: <346D3590.5D1A@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit