so for example oh, this is one of the first things I would like jon rappoport to explain to us... I mean, I mean here's a case of where a virus killed a bison in a zoo and everyone was all worked up about it cuz the virus move from the sheep to the bison. so we don't immediately jump in and say oh this is all full of s*** because there are no such thing as viruses and they can't be transmitted and they can't cause illness and death... because in this case is just a bison. but the same virologist who isolated the virus and found the cause of the illness are using the same science here. it doesn't make sense to suggest that there's this body of known science that basically works ( basically being the operative word because I know there's a lot of clunkiness to it and I know the HIV AIDS and all the rest of it)
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Doctor: Sheep give zoo’s bison fatal illness
By ROD STETZER |
Sep 27, 2013 Updated Oct 17, 2013
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Irvine Park Zoo bison news conference
Dr. Wayne Griffin, left, and Dick Hebert, the director of the Chippewa Falls Parks and Recreation Department, hold a news conference Friday on last week's death of two bison at the Irvine Park Zoo.
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By ROD STETZER |
Adisease dating to the late 1700s and carried by otherwise healthy sheep is responsible for the deaths of two bison at the Irvine Park Zoo, a veterinarian said Friday.
DNA of the disease, Malignant Catarral Fever or MCF, was found in a sample taken from a bull bison that died last Saturday, said Dr. Wayne Griffin of the Chippewa Valley Veterinary Clinic.
Griffin has been in practice for 33 years. "This is the first confirmed case of MCF I've seen," he said at the press conference at the park with Dick Hebert, director of the Chippewa Falls Parks and Recreation Department.
Hebert said a third bison that was thought to be sick is doing fine, and will continue to be watched. “We’re hoping that animal will be OK,” he said.
The disease cannot be transferred to humans, but animals with multi-chambered stomachs are vulnerable, include cattle, bison and whitetail deer.
The zoo's six sheep, that are otherwise healthy, will be shipped out of the zoo as soon as possible, Hebert said. Where the sheep will go had not been determined as of Friday morning, he added.
The sheep shared an area with the buffalo, separated by a fence. Griffin said it’s that fence were the sheep could have left nasal secretions or saliva that transmitted the disease to two of the parks’ nine bison.
Hebert said hard work put in by the zoo’s staff, Dr. Joel Mayberry and Dr. Griffin of the veterinary clinic was responsible for tracking down what killed a male and female bison Sept. 20 and 21.
“Today, there is no treatment or cure for MCF and no vaccine,” the USDA said in an article “Battling Bison’s Mysterious MCF Disease.” That article says MCF’s cause is a group of herpesvirus. The virus itself does not live long, but once transmitted to bison it can cause mouth ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, diarrhea and a high fever.
The Bison Producers of Alberta (Canada) said the disease is transmitted in Africa by wildebeest and by sheep in North America.
“All sheep should be presumed to be carriers of the OHV-2 virus. . . Generally lambs are born virus-free, but by five to six months, almost all of the lambs are carriers. This implies the lambs are infected through contact with the adult members of the flock,” the Bison Producers of Alberta wrote about Malignant Catarrhal Fever.