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6y Henry antibiotic, but e�entuall have tried about 40 wc,rked tong with them in
base of a research they will carry an oral rabies different kinds of baits-- the . program, doing ; In addition to testing bait along in the research: almost outbreaks occurring now in
vaccine. The tetracycline is including limburger, everything from taking blood effectiveness, the resear- ready for a field trial of the parts of Europe. Other groups
aimed at controlling
deposited __in the teeth and vaccine". in a number of countries are
d_of rabies through P gorgonzola and roquefes, samples to . check natural [hers have been investigating An effective oral vaccine also working on the problem,
,populations is bones of animals eating the cheeses, hot dogs, sausages, immunityto. rabies found to, how the disease is spread has been developed at Con- he ddork but this is the le
Oetion in Huron hamburger, where it can be liver, eggs, fish oil and tripe --he relatively {ow --to helpingfrom one area to another by
naught Laboratories, one tackling it on a large
comp spotted during examination and have also experimented hand distribute baits during monitoring the movement of g.
only
his month. two under ultraviolet light. �r with distributionpatterns and the earlystages.through a radio -tagging 7 E,tonro, but still has to puss scale.
mersheaded by g g foxes gging safety tests on all animals
ersfrom the fish and Dave Johnston, a research times. They have found the Foxes are the s eeies program. About 25 animals in
biologist, and Ian Watt, a hamburger balls to be ef- hardest hit by rabies,
with Simcue County, near the which might conceivably
branch of the Ontario g have access to the bait.
of Natural research technician have fective, cheap and easily about 50 percent of all cases, unit's headquarters in Maple The first field trials of the
ccs .will soon be been working on the baiting mass produced, using the Mr. Johnston noted, versus (north of Toronto), have been
system for the past five same type of equipment as about 15 percent for skunks equipped with collars con- vaccine will probably be
12,000 baits over a tryingdevelop
re mile area bounded years, to an McDonald's hamburger and oneg�rcentforraccoons.
taining transmitters. carried out on islands and
on, Goderich and ffective and economical stands. Right now the fox The monitoring has then move to a test area such
The baits, com system for getting the vac- Following the baiting of an population in the arch is high revealed that while most as Huron. Researchers will
cine to wild animals. Mr, area, the researchers appealyoung foxes remain within a continue to monitor animals
a hamburger ball in and a rabies outbreak is Y un
Johnston has spent. 15 years to local trappers five mile radius after leavingwith the chemical tracer
ed plastic pouch, are ppers to bring in • starting, he warned, urging
working on the rabies fox, skunk, racoon and coyote people to make sure their the den, five to 10 percent will during the first period of use.,
mad by aircraft over g Eventually the vaccine
problem: what animals carcasses fcfr testing. By dogs are vaccinated against move up to 50 chiles. One fox
areas. transmit it, how and at what out -
checking for the
thebaits contain only• g presence of the disease. He said rabies . tagged near Barrie was found harts will be used in selected
cline, a common times of year. the tetracycline, they can tell seems to follow a three year in this area, Mr. Johnston ureas access southern
how effective the baiting has cycler the- fox population is noted. He said a $75 reward is Ontario where rabies out -
been, knocked way down by the offered for any of these breaks are expected. A
More than 5,000 animal disease, then grows during animals captured alive and buildup in the fox population
carcasses have been tested the number of relatively also asked hunters to report usually signals the beginning
during the course of the rabies -free years before any seen or shot. of a new disease cycle, Mr.
ans o� program and last year, Mr, anotheroutbreak hits. A hunter shooting any foxJohnston reported. Onc of the
Johnston reported, they Even at its peak, he added, or wolf this winter can help ways 'the group monitors
succeeded in reaching 74 the population of foxes now is the program by turning the population levels is by doing
percent of the foxes in a "64 only 20-25 percent of its level carcass over to the MNR truck count from aircraft
mile test area in the before rabies was introduced district 'office he added` "during.the winter.
county.into the area, apparently There is a token payment of
Huron County was chosen from the Arctic, in 1958-59. enc`'" dollar for carcasses
for this phase of the research, The disease has been present turned in.
he said, because it has the in the Arctic for more than The baiting this fall will be
highest density of fox trap -100 years and it is speculated the final test prior to in-
pers in Ontario. He noted the it may have been carried troducing the vaccine, he is spread
trappers' association has there by early explorers, he -said. "We're pretty well and
tuation has gone from
C i worse for Ontario's
lean producers, as
ins and cloudy skies
d this week, and
skies cleared e
d on
and Tuesday, rain
recast again on
�` ,ayand Thursday.
gh many farmers
Cokesmen for the
bean board are op -
losses could run as
oiti$10,000,000 or 80
of the crop in Huron
lone..
, only, 13 percent of
159,000 acres have
11'4rvested, with 63,000
anted in Huron.
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es Broadwell,
of the Bean Board,
Tuesday afternoon
Board is negotiating
canners to get the
wered on the beans,
contracts can be
ill be giving some
ation for color
more off-white
ut not for splits or
roadwell said,
beaks must he 23
moisture or under,
II added..
real selling job to the
to take the .slightly
d beans," he said.
trickly up to the
an now, •whether
t more beans off,
Ilsaid..
eof the possibility of
ore beans in, the
Crop Insurance
sion has halted
ff any more beans
can Board makes a
ion,
any farmers are
mpatient. They see
lue of spending
25 per acre to take
Oland get only $50
ans, when they can
to $200 per acre of
They also want to
fields as soon as
to get the winter
nted, as it is already
to for the crop to get
gh before the winter
mers also want to
an heads off the
and swing into the
est as soon as
possible, or mu^h of it too
may be lost.
Unfortunately, only about
60 percent of the beans are
-insured, putting many far-
mers in fanancial hardship'.
But the major banks and
credit unions said on Tuesday
that they would go easy on
farmers who have lost their
crop and carried no in-
surance, in hopes of a better
year in 1978.
It's the worst year in
history for the bean farmers,
according to. Broadwell,
eclipsing the bad year of 1967,
when 28 percent of the
potential harvest was lost.
There was a.potential crop
of 2,500,000 hundred weight
hags in the fields before the
continuous rain came.
Broadwell said he. felt -the
Bean Board could fill their
recently negotiated contracts
in Europe with the beans they
had, and didn'tfeel there
would he any shortage of seed
beans next year.
"There's not too many
beans in the world right now,
the supply is down all over,"
Broadwell said. Michigan the
other bean producing area is
also facing wet harvest
conditions, and the output
from Ethiopia is also suf-
fering. The three areas
supply most of the world's
beans. -
Broadwell said that
Lambton and Kent weren't as
had off as Huron. and hoped
for a better yield there.
"Nobody knows for sure
how much we'll get, it's
strickly up to the weather-
man," he said.
According to weatherman
Tony Chir of the Goderich
weather . station, September
was the cloudiest month since
records were started in 1880,
with only 108 hours of sun-
shine being recorded, beating
the old record of 135 hours set
in 1934.
A total of 130.5 -mm (5.22
inches) of rain fell in
Goderich in September,
nearly twice the average of
75.9 (3 inches), but added to
the 243 mm (9.72 inches in
August) it has, been the
wettest two months in suc-
cession in years. The August
total rainfall set a new all-
time record for, any month of
any year.
The long range forecast for
October doesn't look any
better, with cold and damp
conditions expected to per-
sist.
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The idea of oral vaccine
baiting originated with the
World Health Organization of
the United Nations, he said.
Wildlife rabies, particularly
in foxes and skunks,
all overth America
Europe, with particularly bad
e
0
As of the 15th of Decem-
ber 1971 1 will be leaving
General Practice for one
year sabbatical. My
practice will consist of
emergency medicine at
the Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital,
plus psychiatric coun-
selling in my home of-
fice. I regret any incon-
venience 'this may
cause.
Dr. R.G. Lomas
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