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ThePiedmontChannel.com
updated 1:49 p.m. MT, Wed., March. 11, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Several dead wild birds found across North Carolina have tested positive for salmonella, prompting an investigation that lead to the recall of a wild bird food, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said Tuesday afternoon.
Chemical Name: Silver iodide (99.9%-Ag)
Product Number: 93-4714
CAS Registry Number: 7783-96-2
Formula: AgI
EINECS Number: 232-038-0
Chemical Family: metal halide
Synonym: Argentous iodide
RTECS Data: Bacteria-Salmonella typhimurium; Mutation in microorganisms: 30mg/L/72H. Bacteria-Salmonella typhimurium; Mutation in microorganisms: 150mg/L/72H. Human lymphocyte; Sister chromatid exchange: 100ug/L/72H.
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency biologist Scott Dykes said calls have been coming in for weeks about large numbers of dead American goldfinches, purple finches and pine siskins.
Necropsies show the birds died of salmonella, a common disease in the species.
Salmonella has already been discovered at nine egg-producing farms, while according to the Finnish Food Safety Authority EVIRA, the number of affected farms could still rise further as soon as the most recent samples of faeces have been analysed
The Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak, linked to previously recalled SunSprout brand sprouts, has sickened 76 people in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and South Dakota, KGAN reports. The cases have all been linked to SunSprout Enterprises’ alfalfa, onion, and gourmet sprouts
POSTED: 6:55 am MDT March 24, 2008
UPDATED: 3:11 pm MDT March 24, 2008
ALAMOSA, Colo. -- The number of suspected salmonella cases linked to an outbreak in Alamosa has topped 200.
Thanks to Elinor, Eric and Lisa for sending this news item from The Onion. As The Onion points out, the easiest way to solve the pesky Salmonella problem is to make it legal:
High levels of Silver (Ag), Barium (Ba) and Strontium (Sr) and low levels of copper (Cu) have been measured in the antlers, soils and pastures of the deer that are thriving in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) cluster zones in North America in relation to the areas where CWD and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) have not been reported.
Originally posted by Essan
So let me get this right. They're spraying silver iodide, the stuff used for cloud seeding, not to seed clouds and make it rain but so that the silver iodide can get into birds where it metamorphoses into salmonella and kills the birds ......
Wow, you Americans really are wacky. Have you nothing better to do with your money? Wouldn't it be easier just to shoot the birds?
Elevated silver concentrations in biota occur in the vicinities of sewage outfalls,
electroplating plants, mine waste sites, and silver-iodide seeded areas
...
ilver, as ionic Ag
+
, is one of the most toxic metals
known to aquatic organisms in laboratory testing, although large industrial losses to the aquatic environment are
probably infrequent because of its economic value as a recoverable resource (National Association of
Photographic Manufacturers [NAPM] 1974; Nebeker et al. 1983). Silver, however, is of concern in various
aquatic ecosystems because of the severity of silver contamination in the water column, sediments, and biota
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by doctordoom
so was it chemtrails or cloud seeding? Or are they the same thing?
"We've picked them (dead birds) up in about seven (East Tennessee) counties now, and we've had birds dying in as many as up to 30 birds in one group, so it's pretty significant numbers," said Scott Dykes, a wildlife biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
Mr. Dykes said TWRA began getting calls about dying birds in East Tennessee in late February, and they sent some birds to be necropsied at the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study Center at the University of Georgia in Athens.
"The result was salmonella," he said.
As a precautionary measure, Wild Birds Unlimited Woodpecker Blend also was recalled because it may have shared common ingredients, Mr. Schaust said.
But he added that he does not believe the recalls and the finch deaths in Tennessee are connected.
"In the wildlife blend, the suspect ingredient was peanuts. These birds (finches) don't eat peanuts," he said. "There is absolutely no correlation between the bird food and the salmonella deaths that are occurring in your area."
Originally posted by Essan
Wow, you Americans really are wacky. Have you nothing better to do with your money? Wouldn't it be easier just to shoot the birds?