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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2006Bird flu getting closer and killed a cat...
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/02/28/birdflu.german.cat/index.html The bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus has reached Sweden, so I guess it won't take long before it gets to Norway, as well. In Germany a cat is dead from the virus, apparently from eating a dead, sick bird. Several cat owners have contacted the authorities about getting rid of their cats...  SignatureHans Schrøder han-schr@online.no > http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/02/28/birdflu.german.cat/index.html > > The bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus has reached Sweden, so I guess > it won't take long before it gets to Norway, as well. In Germany a cat is > dead from the virus, apparently from eating a dead, sick bird. Several cat > owners have contacted the authorities about getting rid of their cats... That's sad. What would be so hard about just keeping them inside away from infected birds? SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/02/28/birdflu.german.cat/index.html > The bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus has reached Sweden, so I > guess it [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > owners > have contacted the authorities about getting rid of their cats... The thing that worries me the most is, peoples irrational reaction to cats under these circumstances. I'm sure it's going to cause a lot of needless suffering. :-( SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) A House is not a home, without a cat. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk Remember the dark ages cats were associated with witches they were burned with the witches which led to a rat over population which led to the black plague ( close enough) "Matthew AKA NMR \( NO MORE RETAIL \)" <10 points a troll @linethetrollsup.com> wrote: > Remember the dark ages cats were associated with witches they were burned > with the witches which led to a rat over population which led to the black > plague ( close enough) Do you have a cite for this? Most of the witch trials came in the early modern period, long after the dark ages, and IIRC, quite a while after the Black Death. A very interesting book on the topic is Cohen's 'Europe's Inner Demons : The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom' which I see is out in a newer edition than the one I read. SignatureCheryl http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm > "Matthew AKA NMR \( NO MORE RETAIL \)" <10 points a troll > @linethetrollsup.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom' which I see is out > in a newer edition than the one I read. There is a good book to read ancient mysteries revealed I forgot the author. they have a reference about why there was so many people hysterical at the time of the witch trial. It was about a foreign body being present in the type of grain that was being used most poor people were using the grain to make there bread. The bacteria ran wild due to weather conditions and water levels flooding the fields. It is believed to have caused paranoia and general craziness allowing mass hysteria to prevail. Weird play out scenario I said close enough it was not meant as an exact reference. :-) It was meant as a reference for people and associated cats with a problem or a disease but there is reference to it being an black plague great epidemic in the late 1600's http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/blackdeath/default.htm - a general reference I know the Salem witch trials in 1600's ( general time ) to many reason suspected for people acting they way they did during that time. the black plague was referenced in the 1300's till present day the black death was in the 1300's I believe between 1340 and 1360 The Dark Ages. That's one of the terms used to describe nearly 1000 years of history-a history that is often hard to understand due to a lack of surviving documents, and often is clouded by myth and legends. Just a general term used nothing special to many historians have no agreement on when and where this started or ended "Matthew AKA NMR \( NO MORE RETAIL \)" <10 points a troll @linethetrollsup.com> wrote: > There is a good book to read ancient mysteries revealed I forgot the author. > they have a reference about why there was so many people hysterical at the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > general craziness allowing mass hysteria to prevail. Weird play out > scenario Ergot, I believe. I don't think it's a bacteria, but it does cause hallucinations and is believed to occur naturally in grains in bad conditions, as you describe. The author of the book I cited blames a lot of the witch hunts on mass hysteria, and argues that whether or not they occurred depended a lot on who was swept up in the hysteria. If the local lords (religious or secular) got caught up in it, it went to extraordinary extents. If it was only the peasants, it didn't. He cites one example in which the local lord realized that the hysteria was reaching such an extent in one town that trade was being totally disrupted. He sent a representative to sit in on all witch trials. Convictions dropped instantly. Then there were some authors who liked a good story, and actually invented some of the witch hunt stories out of whole cloth - and those stories were later cited as evidence. It's a fascinating topic, all the more so > I said close enough it was not meant as an exact reference. :-) It was > meant as a reference for people and associated cats with a problem or a > disease but there is reference to it being an black plague great epidemic > in the late 1600's > http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/blackdeath/default.htm - a general > reference I hadn't heard before that a virus which could be transmitted person-to-person, rather than the bacteria and the rat/flea/human route, was suspected. That's interesting. I was thinking about the first, great plague in the 1300s, although of course I know there have been others since, and there are still plague cases today. > I know the Salem witch trials in 1600's ( general time ) to many reason > suspected for people acting they way they did during that time. Yeah, early modern. People always talk about witchhunts as being medieval, but in fact, they were mostly during the early modern period when a lot of the changes that underly our present society were beginning. It was a very disturbed period, of course, with changes in all kinds of things. Maybe that made it easier for such hysterical outbreaks like the witchhunts to occur. > the black plague was referenced in the 1300's till present day > the black death was in the 1300's I believe between 1340 and 1360 > The Dark Ages. That's one of the terms used to describe nearly 1000 years of > history-a history that is often hard to understand due to a lack of > surviving documents, and often is clouded by myth and legends. Just a > general term used nothing special to many historians have no agreement on > when and where this started or ended If you want to stir up something, go to soc.history.medieval and ask whether the dark ages existed, and if so, when! I tend to put it between around 500 and 1000, very approximately, but I know some people get very upset at the term itself, pointing out that the period was no 'darker' than any other; we just lack much in the way of records about it. And of course, whether or not there was a lot of violence, political instability etc. rather depends on which bit of Europe you are talking about at which time. I like history. SignatureCheryl >"Matthew AKA NMR \( NO MORE RETAIL \)" <10 points a troll @linethetrollsup.com> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >hallucinations and is believed to occur naturally in grains in bad >conditions, as you describe. According to the article in Wikipedia, ergot is the common name for about 50 species of fungus that grow on certain grains and grasses, with rye as the most common host. In addition to containing lysergic acid (a raw material used in the synthesis of LSD), it also contains chemicals that can constrict blood vessels to the point of allowing gangrene infections. Controlled doses of ergot were once used to induce abortions and to control maternal bleeding after childbirth. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > If you want to stir up something, go to soc.history.medieval and ask > whether the dark ages existed, and if so, when! I tend to put it [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > of violence, political instability etc. rather depends on which bit > of Europe you are talking about at which time. Well, the times that have few records *are* dark to us, ie, we can't see them. Perhaps the "opaque times" would be a better term =P Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca I love history specaily something we are not to know about it always seems to be wrote by the wrong person. Hence the King James Version, america slaughtering the native americans , the french indian war etc etc. |
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