Something to Be Aware Of

People need to know about new diseases that result from outdoor living. One of them is known as the ‘Alpha-gal’ syndrome, a sometimes-fatal disease people get from the spotted wood tick bite. A biologist friend of mine from Arkansas says that he knows of several deaths in that state which have resulted from the disease.

I won’t go into much detail here about it is caused by a tick bite which but apparently creates some kind of allergy to red meat which makes some people violently ill, when they eat red meat. That does not include pork, chicken and fish. Find out more about it on the Internet. Doctors themselves are just finding out about it, but it is going to become more prevalent. It didn’t even exist ten years ago, but at least it is known to be caused by the bite of a certain species of tick. And few know the extent of the tick diseases. I think there are nearly 100 species of ticks in the United States and more than two-dozen of them are in the state of Missouri.

If you find dead deer near water, around water holes at creeks, rivers and ponds, it is likely you are finding deer killed by something called blue-tongue, or epizootic hemorrhagic disease. It is caused by a biting midge fly and prevalent in late summer when there is a drought and hot weather. Another disease you should know about is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

On the Internet, that disease is said to affect animals and humans and is always fatal. Look it up. It is called other diseases, scrapies in sheep, Cruetzfeldt- Jacobs disease in humans, and mad- cow disease in cattle. Humans can get the disease from eating meat from infected cattle, and thousands have, dying a horrible death they say is worse than rabies. I have written about it on my computer site,  larrydablemontoutdoors.blogspot.com.

I beg you to go there on your computer and read it. There is much you need to know about the disease and it cannot be published in most newspapers because of a tremendous controversy. It is a topic most people are being intentionally mislead about and you will never hear the truth about it through the larger news media sources in the state.

On that site I will give you the name and testimony from an Ozarkian who has tearfully told me about seeing a brother die from it… transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. When I ask people if they have ever heard about it, most have no idea what it is. You need to know the whole story about it. I will talk about all those diseases on Thursday evening, the 21st, at the Patterson, Mo community center from 7 to 8, then again next week in Mt. Vernon, Mo on the 28th.

For me this week is catfish time. I am going to set trotlines for flathead and channel catfish. If you use live bait you can catch both species and I love trotlining. I want to stockpile my freezer with a legal limit of both. Then I give fresh fish to some elderly folks I know and I will use them in some community fish fries in the fall to help raise money for good causes. I myself seldom eat fish because we practically lived on fish and ducks and squirrels as a kid. But I love to catch them for others.

While I am trotlining, I will spend the night on some river gravel bar at times and catch bass on topwater lures during the day. What a time this is to be fishing, with cooling water comes hungry fish.

If you like to read, my two magazines are about to be mailed out, one an outdoor magazine and one an Ozark magazine. You can get both by calling me… 417 777 5227 and the email address is lightninridge47@gmail.com. If you are as technologically unadvanced as me just write to me at Box 22, Bolivar, Mo.