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From: Peter Smith <pjsmith1@gte.net>
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Subject: Re: Small Pox destroyed?
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The last that I heard on the topic, wsa that this is now being heavily
debated. From this, I beleive, that the stocks are still in the freezer.

________________________
Peter Smith
Cal Poly Pomona

James Atkinson wrote in message <7vhg71$37j@net.bio.net>...
>Hi
>
>I just wondered whether or not anybody could tell me whether the World
>Health organisation was successful in destroying the remaining samples of
>the small pox virus as planned on the 30 June '99?
>
>Thanks
>
>James
>
>
>
>
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From owner-vect-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk  Wed Nov 10 12:14:58 1999
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From: Richard <delahayr@club-internet.fr>
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Subject: Urgent ! baculovirus viral cycle needed
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Hello,

I need the viral baculovirus cycle or an article about (recent).

Thanks a lot

Richard

delahaye@scientifique.com



From owner-vect-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk  Sat Nov 13 15:10:54 1999
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From: "Dr. Paul R. Earl" <pearl@ccr.dsi.uanl.mx>
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Hello,
	I am sitting in Mexico hoping some kind sole will mail me
aegypti, albopictus & virus pictures as I will have a dengue
bibliography to Email out to those who want it next week. A few
illustrations will help.

	All help--Email by scanner of course--gratefully received.
Best Regards,	Paul
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From: "Dennis L. Knudson" <dknudson@klabs.agsci.colostate.edu>
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ANDRE@usuhsb.usuhs.mil
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I have gotten your names and contact information while searching through
the Mosquito-L archives for information about the Amazon and
mosquitoes/mosquito control.  

The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences is presenting a travelling
exhibit on the Amazon at the museum from mid-February through the beginning
of May 2000.  They supplement these travelling exhibits with ones of their
own and specialize in live animal exhibits.  Through connections made in
our public education efforts, the New Jersey Mosquito Control Association
was approached to provide mosquitoes and input for a related exhibit which
we agreed to do.  

Staff members will go to Mosquito Research & Control at Rutgers University
to learn how to maintain mosquito colonies to be used in the display. We
are also gathering a variety of information for the museum related to the
mosquitoes themselves, mosquito borne disease in the Amazon as well as the
connection with mosquito borne disease in Philadelphia, and control methods
used by native people in the Amazon etc.

Do you have any of the following information or can you steer me in the
right direction? :
1) Mosquito species documented in the Amazon.
2) Mosquito borne diseases documented there as well.
3) Natural habitats that could be displayed in an exhibit (for instance
when in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, I saw mosquitoes breeding in
unused mortars left around homes but don't know of similar type items that
could be represented for the Amazon)
4) Local repellent or control measures employed in that area. 

If anyone can help, we would appreciate it.  If anyone knows of others who
might be able to provide information, please let me know.

Thank You,
Christine Musa
Co-Chair, NJMCA Public Relations Committee
Director, Warren County Mosquito Commission

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From: Nicolas DEGALLIER <degallie@solar.com.br>
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:02:54 -0200 (EDT)

>
>I have gotten your names and contact information while searching through
>the Mosquito-L archives for information about the Amazon and
>mosquitoes/mosquito control.
>

Thanks for your interest.

>The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences is presenting a travelling
>exhibit on the Amazon at the museum from mid-February through the beginning
>of May 2000.  They supplement these travelling exhibits with ones of their
>own and specialize in live animal exhibits.  Through connections made in
>our public education efforts, the New Jersey Mosquito Control Association
>was approached to provide mosquitoes and input for a related exhibit which
>we agreed to do.
>
>Staff members will go to Mosquito Research & Control at Rutgers University
>to learn how to maintain mosquito colonies to be used in the display. We
>are also gathering a variety of information for the museum related to the
>mosquitoes themselves, mosquito borne disease in the Amazon as well as the
>connection with mosquito borne disease in Philadelphia, and control methods
>used by native people in the Amazon etc.
>
>Do you have any of the following information or can you steer me in the
>right direction? :

>1) Mosquito species documented in the Amazon.

There are some 65 common species of mosquitoes that can be collected on
human bait in Brazilian Amazonia. Other countries are also inside the
amazonian belt , including a lot of forest variations (French Guiana,
Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela etc.). Foret variations are mainly "terra
firme" more or less degradated or secundarized (by man), inundated "varzea"
and altitude "cerrado" forests.
Many species of mosquitoes are only canopy lovers and there are also
specialized in day, crepuscular or night activity.
The anthropophilic species of mosquitoes are also specialized in the place
of human body they like more to bite (a study of mine).

>2) Mosquito borne diseases documented there as well.

Mosquito borne diseases in Amazonia are very diverse: mainly arboviruses =
more than 180 different species among them some 36 pathogenic for man and
some 5-10 may be transmitted as epidemics.
The majority are clinically "dengue-like" (fever, rash and arthralgia) but
some are causing hemorragic fever (Yellow fever) or encephalitis (SLE, ILH,
ROC etc.).
Many are bird-mosquito transmitted, with well defined preferences as to the
level of bird activity in the forest (a study of mine) but a lot are
rodent-, monkey-, reptiles or other vertebrates- transmitted: the wild
cycles of arboviruses are thus extremely diverse.

Other very important mosquito-borne disease is malaria but not so
interesting as arboviruses because the only vertebrate host is man!
Filariasis (of monkeys) may be transmitted also by mosquitoes but I don't
know more about them.

>3) Natural habitats that could be displayed in an exhibit (for instance
>when in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, I saw mosquitoes breeding in
>unused mortars left around homes but don't know of similar type items that
>could be represented for the Amazon)

Many species are breeding in phytothelmata (Sabethini): bromeliads, banana
trees, tree holes (Haemagogus, Sabethes), leaves on the ground, other
(Culex, Psorophora, Aedes) in swamps or temporary water on the ground.

>4) Local repellent or control measures employed in that area.
>

a) In cities: breeding reduction and fumigations against Culex and Aedes
aegypti (vectors of filariasis or arboviruses, and Dengue or urban yellow
fever, respectively;

b) In the wild: individual repellent and mosquito netting around the
hammock; in fact, the people in the forest suffer no more reaction to
mosquito bites, something like a natural immunization; this occured also
with me after 15 years working in Amazonia.

>If anyone can help, we would appreciate it.  If anyone knows of others who
>might be able to provide information, please let me know.
>

In a near future, I hope to complete an Internet home page where people
would be able to see a list of my publication on mosquitoes and arboviruses
in Amazonia.

Sincerely,
Nicolas Degallier.

Nicolas DEGALLIER
IRD
C.P. 7091  LAGO SUL
71619-970  BRASILIA  DF
BRASIL
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From: BIOSCI Administrator <biohelp@net.bio.net>
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(LAST REVISION: 14-AUG-99)

This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up
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	Contents:
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	0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!!

	1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups.

	2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc.

	3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists.

	4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory.


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1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups.
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All BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World
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2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc.
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BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups),
mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/.
The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small
number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net).  Unfortunately it
is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out
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are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net
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What should you do personally if you get junk mail?
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Just delete it and move on without reading it further.  Filing a
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really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by
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address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing.

What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups?
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If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape.
Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the
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Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible
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hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader
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Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the
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to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems
directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net.

We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells
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Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings
on the USENET distribution.  Unfortunately there are easy ways for
determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET,
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the newsgroup is moderated.  You can also access our newsgroups over
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The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is
http://www.bio.net/).  If you are not directly on the Internet but can
reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user
directory.  waismail use is described above.  You can also request a
user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net.

Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your
address information is still up-to-date.  Because of our limited
personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to
revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have
resources to edit old forms.








