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<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Hi Michael,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>In regard to " "No one gets sick
from these plants, animals don't get killed by them," said Kevin J.
Sullivan, a CNLA board member and owner of Chestnut Hill Nursery in Stafford
Springs." Actually folks do get sick from Japanese barberry. Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Marc Imlay, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Conservation biologist, 301-2830808,
3014425657 cell)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Board member of the Mid-Atlantic Exotic <st1:place
w:st="on">Pest</st1:place> Plant Council,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Vice president of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place> Native Plant Society,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Chair of the Biodiversity and Habitat
Stewardship Committee for the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Chapter of the Sierra Club.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>C. Lyme Disease Management <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>There is an 8.8 times increased risk of
lyme disease in Jpanese Barberry dominated areas. Jeff Ward reported at the
MA-EPPC conference last August 2007 that ticks doubled in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:place></st1:State> where Japanese Barberry was
present. A year later “The Connecticut researchers found that questing
adult ticks were most abundant in areas dominated by Japanese barberry, and
that about 44% of the ticks found in barberry were infected with Borrelia
burgdorferi, -- the spirochete causative agent of human Lyme disease.
However, only 10% of the less abundant ticks from non-barberry areas were
infected. These findings suggest a great probability of humans <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>becoming infected with Lyme disease in
barberry dominated areas.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Thus, there is an 8.8 times greater risk in
Japanese barberry patches.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Staff at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Catoctin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">National Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> have been
looking for <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>justification to control the Japanese
Barberry which has evidently <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>covered about 1/4th of the 5,000 acres.
This may help.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>One of the principles of Parasitology is
that parasite problems <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>increase in disturbed mono-cultural
habitats. Shistosomiasis <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>from snails in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>
is a classic example with the incidence being <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>very low in the more natural areas. We
recommend monitoring both <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>deer tick density and percent of ticks that
are actual hosts of the <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia
burgdorferi. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>We have three goals, to reduce lyme
disrease, to remove the lyme <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>disease barrier to enjoyment of nature, and
to provide support for <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>control of non-native invasive plants. Note
the message below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>NISC Biweekly report for October 17 -
October 31 *Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Linkage Between Invasive Plants and Human
Disease: October <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>2008, <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Scott C. Williams a researcher at the
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station together with Jeffery S. Ward, Thomas
E. Worthley, and Kirby C. Stafford from the University of Connecticut reported
that the management of the invasive plant, Japanese barberry (Berberis
thumbergii) reduces blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) abundance and could
have human health ramifications. The native white-footed mouse
(Peromyscus leucopus) is a primary host for larval and nymphal blacklegged
tick. The researchers <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>found that tick abundances were greatest in
dense barberry. These ticks are a major vector for agents that cause Lyme
disease, human grandulocytic anaplasmosis, and human babesiosis. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The CDC reported in 2005 that human
grandulocytic anaplasmosis is <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>a new tickborne rickettsial infection of
neutrophils caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum. "This zoonotic disease
has a great capacity to infect and cause disease in humans while maintaining a
persistent subclinical state in animal reservoirs." Because grandulocytic
anaplasmosis impacts immune system function, there is a potential that this
infection could worsen other infectious diseases <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>(see
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EiD/vol11no12/05-0898.htm).<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The CDC reported in 2007 that cases of
human babesiosis have <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>increased across the northeastern <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
especially in coastal areas. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Human babesiosis is a tick-transmitted,
malaria-like infection caused <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>by Babesia microtiparasites. The B. microti
parasite shares the same <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>principal rodent reservoir (white-footed
mouse) and tick vector <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>(<st1:place w:st="on">I.</st1:place>
scapularis) as the Lyme disease spirochete (see <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>www.cdc.gov/eid/content/13/4/633.htm)
(Staff Contact Chris Dionigi).<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org
[mailto:apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of Olivia Kwong<br>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 8:14 AM<br>
To: apwg@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
Subject: [APWG] NEWS: <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:place></st1:State>
nurseries move to eradicate invasive plants<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Connecticut-nurseries-move-to-eradicate-invasive-650167.php<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>Connecticut</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:State><b><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>
nurseries move to eradicate invasive plants<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Michael P. Mayko, Mmayko@ctpost.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Published: 05:20 p.m., Wednesday, September
8, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>They tolerate a wide variety of growing
conditions. They offer contrasting <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>colors to the landscape. They control
erosion and are resistant to most <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>green eating animals.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>But many varieties of the Japanese
barberries so popular with <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:place></st1:State>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>gardeners and professional landscapers also
tend to crowd out other <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>plants, earning them the status of
"invasive" plants.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>See the link above for the full aritcle
text.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>PCA's Alien Plant Working Group mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>APWG@lists.plantconservation.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/apwg_lists.plantconservation.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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