See possible correction below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Thank you for the clarification on all of this. I am pretty sure Buck was not > going to address my queries as clearly as you did, if at all. I find it > imperative to question, especially what appear to be invalidated and rather > dramatic predictions or what are sweeping statements passed off as 'facts'. > Buck wrote: > > > > > Usual is frost in the ground from Dec 1st to Feb 1st. The > > > > > last few years it is only in the ground a couple weeks and > > > > > goes out. That is abnormal. That frost needs sits in the > > > > > ground as a mechanism of tilth lifting and breaking up the > > > > > soil structures, killing pests. Last summer stockmen > > > > > locally were troubled with virus that gets transmitted via > > > > > nats that showed up after these mild winters. It's a > > > > > hemorrhagic disease similar to Ebola that effects internal > > > > > organs, particularly ruminant species like sheep, cattle, > > > > > goats, and deer. > > > > > > I can find nothing about this anywhere. Please include some > > > link that can tell me more about this virus that is spread > > > via the nat (do you mean gnat?). > > > > This is probably it: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetongue_disease
Bluetongue isn't hemorrhagic, but it is a disease of ruminants, including livestock, and it is spread by midges. If that's the disease he's thinking of, he's mistaken about it being hemorrhagic (it's catarrhal, affecting mucous membranes). There's another very closely related viral disease spread by midges that *is* hemorrhagic--epizootic hemorrhagic disease--but it affects only deer, not livestock. So something is screwed up with Buck's story, or else there's a third viral disease of ruminants that is hemorrhagic, affects livestock, and is spread by midges--but I couldn't find one.
