Re "Curing Health Costs: Let the Sick Suffer," by Bob Herbert (column, Sept. 1): As the rise in health care costs far outstrip inflation, Tennessee may not be the only state to embrace such barbaric measures as removing sick people from its Medicaid rolls to save money.
And while wolves kill a small number of sheep and cattle, they kill native hooved animals with far greater frequency, keeping populations of deer and elk in balance -- removing sick and weak animals, preventing slow starvation, and limiting deer-auto collisions and deer depredation on crops.
If the sick frog shares a cage with other animals, remove the sick frog IMMEDIATELY as red leg is very contagious.
The main speaker related how only that morning she had witnessed a fellow senior female executive in the office parking lot performing a frantic handover of a feverish daughter (dressed in pajamas and wrapped in a duvet) to grandparents who had driven some distance to remove the sick child so the mother could attend an important board meeting.
Second, we will discuss pastoralists' health management practices, including whether and when they remove chronically sick animals.
We used ethnographic and epidemiologic methods to understand why pastoralists do not remove chronically sick animals and whether their management strategies have an impact on herd fertility.
Pastoralists in the far north region of Cameroon, for example, do not always remove chronically sick animals from their herds, even though chronic diseases, such as brucellosis, are contagious and have the potential to cause fertility problems in the herd.
The objective of our ethnographic research project was to describe pastoralists' understandings of animal disease and its impacts on fertility as well as their management strategies, in order to understand the apparent paradox that pastoralists do not remove chronically sick animals from their herd, even though this may negatively affect the long-term goal of pastoralists.
But seemingly in direct opposition to this goal, we have found that pastoralists in the far north region of Cameroon do not always remove chronically sick animals from their herds even though these animals may have infectious diseases, like brucellosis, which can cause fertility problems in the herd and illness in humans and animals (John et al. 2010; Scolamacchia et al. 2010).
Remove any sick fry immediately.
