More on New York Malathion kill of (fwd)

[Anthony Cynor]

Lets see, that 18 cases and three deaths in a city of how many million?  Eighty Two
suspected cases.  I think the influenza viruses  in each year can easily beat that,
I guess we will see them spraying humans with nerve gas to control it since that is
the vector animal.  Numbskulls rule again!

Tony

Neil Jones wrote:

> Forwarded message follows:
>
> > From owner-dplex-l at raven.cc.ukans.edu Tue Sep 28 06:51:02 1999
> > Precedence: bulk
> > From: "Lincoln P. Brower" <brower at sbc.edu>
> > To: dplex-l at raven.cc.ukans.edu
> > Subject: More on New York Malathion kill of monarchs
> >
> > There is a report by David Saltonstall in the 26 September 1999 New York
> > Daily News on a jogger in New York reporting monarchs having been killed by
> > malathion spray.  You can read the article at the following address:
> >
> >
> > http://www.nydailynews.com/1999-09-26/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-41834.asp
> >
> > An excerpt is as follows:
> >
> >  Nancy Sanchez-Caro an administrator at Montefiore Medical
> >                          Center, was in-line skating in Central Park at dawn.
> >
> >                          The Riverdale woman said she did two laps around
> > the park's 6-mile loop in the
> >                          early morning gloom and "saw dying monarch
> > butterflies on the road the whole
> >                          way.
> >
> > Lincoln Brower.
> >
> > Professor Lincoln P. Brower
> > Research Professor of Biology
> > Sweet Briar College
> > Sweet Briar, VA 24595
> > (Distinguished Service
> >    Professor of Zoology Emeritus,
> >    University of Florida)
> > Telephone: Office   804-381-6240
> >                 Home:  804-277-5065
> >                      Fax:     804-381-6488
> >
> >
> >
>
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> "At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
> butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog
> National Nature Reserve