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> From: Albert Gomez <albert@icassemblies.com>
> Subject: Re: Artificial intelligence reveals undiscovered bat carriers of Ebola and other filoviruses | Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
> Date: July 25, 2016 at 10:16:07 AM EDT
> To: michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>, Albert Gomez <albert@icassemblies.com>
> Cc: Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com>
> Reply-To: Albert Gomez <albert@icassemblies.com>
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> From: michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>
> To: Albert Gomez <albert@icassemblies.com>
> Cc: Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 9:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Artificial intelligence reveals undiscovered bat carriers of Ebola and other filoviruses | Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
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> Albert,
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> Very interesting. Send us an article if you find one. Bats are naively being demonized.
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> Mike
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>> On Jul 25, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Albert Gomez <albert@icassemblies.com <mailto:albert@icassemblies.com>> wrote:
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> On Jul 25, 2016, at 8:01 AM, michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com <mailto:michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>> wrote:
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> Kathy,
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> I totally agree.
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>> On Jul 23, 2016, at 9:23 AM, Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com <mailto:gilbojer@aol.com>> wrote:
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>> Mike,
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>> Because of the potential for a Zika outbreak here in the U.S., I have recently started seeing a number of articles being published on the benefits of having bats live near your house. So some people are starting to build bat houses.
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>> http://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2016/05/23/zika-virus-mosquitos-bats-pest-control-orig.cnn <http://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2016/05/23/zika-virus-mosquitos-bats-pest-control-orig.cnn>
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>> Since I live in a forested area near the swamp, I have a lot of experience with living near bats and mosquitoes. An entire colony of bats can squeeze through a space as small as one-quarter of an inch wide. If the space is not big enough for the entire colony to all enter at the same time, they will take turns entering until the last bat has entered. I have seen them do that many times. If the bats decide to move from their bat house or place of roosting / nesting into someone's attic (as happened to one of my neighbors), the homeowner could have a big messy problem on their hands.
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>> However the video is correct in that where ever a colony of bats live, the immediate surrounding area will not have any mosquitoes as long as the bats live there.
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>> I think it is good to have bats live near your area in a natural environment, but not good to have them live anywhere close to your house.
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>> Kathy
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com <mailto:michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>>
>> To: Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com <mailto:gilbojer@aol.com>>
>> Cc: Albert Gomez <albert@icassemblies.com <mailto:albert@icassemblies.com>>
>> Sent: Sat, Jul 23, 2016 7:15 am
>> Subject: Re: Artificial intelligence reveals undiscovered bat carriers of Ebola and other filoviruses | Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
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>> Kathy,
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>> I worry a bit about bats being demonized beyond the realities of their positive and negative contributions to ecosystems. In West Africa, people have been cutting down trees hundreds of years old because they have bats in them — with no evidence that the bat in the trees carry Ebola, for example, or that cutting the trees down will reduce their risks.
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>> That said:
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>> One Health, Ebola, AI
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>> Mike
>> On Jul 22, 2016, at 11:20 PM, Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com <mailto:gilbojer@aol.com>> wrote:
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>> Mike,
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>> FYI . . .
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>> The key to stopping Ebola? Using machine learning to track infected bats
>> http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ebola-map-machine-learning-bats/ <http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ebola-map-machine-learning-bats/>
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>> Artificial intelligence reveals undiscovered bat carriers of Ebola and other filoviruses | Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
>> http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/artificial-intelligence-reveals-undiscovered-bat-carriers-ebola-and-other-filoviruses <http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/artificial-intelligence-reveals-undiscovered-bat-carriers-ebola-and-other-filoviruses>
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>> PLOS - Undiscovered Bat Hosts of Filoviruses
>> http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0004815 <http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0004815>
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>> EurekAlert - University of Georgia - Ecologists identify potential new sources of Ebola and other filoviruses
>> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uog-eip071416.php <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uog-eip071416.php>
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>> University of Georgia - Odum School of Ecology
>> http://www.ecology.uga.edu/newsItem.php?Ecologists_create_a_framework_for_predicting_new_infectious_diseases-405/ <http://www.ecology.uga.edu/newsItem.php?Ecologists_create_a_framework_for_predicting_new_infectious_diseases-405/>
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>> The macroecology of infectious diseases: A new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts
>> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12644/full <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12644/full>
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