Saturday, April 25, 2009

Diatomaceous Earth

http://www.permaguard.com/items.html

http://www.dirtworks.net/Diatomaceous-Earth.html

http://wolfcreekranch1.tripod.com/de_retailers.html

http://www.greenharvest.com.au/pestcontrol/diatomaceous_earth_prod.html

http://www.earthworkshealth.com/products.php?

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Diatomaceous_earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth

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A couple of articles from The Whole Dog Journal about flea treatment chemicals and non toxic treatments;

http://www.apnm.org/publications/resources/fleachemfin.pdf

http://www.homevet.com/petcare/documents/fleacontrol.pdf

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Tick Links


The TICK-L Links Page

This page lists some Web sites which may be of interest. Listing a site here does not imply endorsement of its contents. Statements and opinions found on these sites are at the sole responsibility of their site owners.


Managing your TICK-L subscription options, etc.

Subscribe, sign off, change options, or search the list archives from the TICK-L home page

How to set your mail program to post in "plain text" (and six reasons why you should do so)


Tick disease FAQs and related material

Jasper's Canine Tick-borne Disease Information page, by Anne McGuire

Canine Tick-borne Disease FAQ page, by Pam Barbe

Canine Tick-borne Disease Information page, by Gil. Ash

Update on Tick Transmitted Diseases (Antech News 4-04, PDF)

Ticks and tick-borne diseases (Monmouth County, N.J.)

Imizol (imidocarb dipropionate) data (Imizol is FDA approved and available to U.S. veterinarians)

Units of measurement (for calculating dosages)

Diagnostic laboratories for tick-borne diseases


Rickettsial Diseases

Ehrlichiosis - a silent and deadly killer (Jan Hendricks & Bob Wilson)

The Hawk's Nest: Ehrlichia update

The Hawk's Nest: How Ehrlichia affects your dog

Ehrlichiosis (Oklahoma State University)

Ehrlichiosis, Tropical Canine Pancytopenia (Michigan State University)

Ehrlichiosis (University of Wisconsin)

Ocular histopathology of Ehrlichial Infections in the Dog

Ehrlichia-infected ticks on migrating birds

The Ehrlichia Home Page (University of California, Davis)

An Overview of Canine Ehrlichiosis (University of Georgia)

New Taxonomy of the family Anaplasmataceae (Ohio State University)

Classification and nomenclature changes for Ehrlichia and related organisms (Ohio State University)

Tick-borne Ehrlichiae and Rickettsiae of Dogs (IVIS)

Detection of Neorickettsia risticii in freshwater stream snails

Molecular Analysis of Neorickettsia risticii in Adult Aquatic Insects in Pennsylvania, in Horses Infected by Ingestion of Insects, and Isolated in Cell Culture

Neorickettsia risticii is vertically transmitted in the trematode Acanthatrium oregonense and horizontally transmitted to bats (Abstract)

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Dogs (University of Georgia)

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Edward Breitschwerdt, DVM)


Lyme Disease

Lyme Borreliosis in Dogs (R. K. Straubinger, D.V.M., IVIS)

Lyme Disease in Dogs (T. J. Dunn, Jr., D.V.M., The Pet Center)

Lyme Quantitative C6 Antibody Test (IDEXX Laboratories)

Mechanism and details of Lyme disease transmission during tick bites (CDC)

Investigating the Role of White-footed Mice in the Transmission of Lyme Disease on Fire Island, New York

The role of the deer tick in transmitting Lyme disease (Monmouth County, N.J.)

Dr. Willy Burgdorfer on "The Complexity of Vector-borne Spirochetes (Borrelia spp)"

The following Web sites offer perspectives on various aspects of Lyme Disease primarily in human patients. This is an area of lively controversy. An effort has been made to include a range of differing points of view within the medical profession.

Lyme Disease: eMedicine overview article by John Meyerhoff, M.D.

Learn About Lyme Disease (CDC) (with many subheadings and links)

National Lyme Disease Foundation

Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation

International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS)

Johns Hopkins Arthritis Reports on Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease: Questionable Diagnosis and Treatment (Quackwatch)

American College of Physicians: Lyme Disease Initiative

American College of Physicians: New evidence to relieve fears about Lyme Disease

Advanced Topics in Lyme Disease (Joseph J. Burrascano Jr., M.D.)

Diagnostic hints and treatment guidelines for Lyme and other tick borne illnesses (ILADS, Burrascano)

Lyme Disease: A Diagnostic and Treatment Dilemma (Joseph J. Burrascano Jr., M.D.)

Lyme Disease vaccine (in Canada, but relevant to the U.S. too)


Babesiosis

An overview of canine babesiosis (University of Georgia)

Babesiosis in Greyhounds (Lynda Adame)

Hemotropic diseases of the dog, cat and horse (Cynthia J. Holland, Ph.D.)

Babesiosis (comprehensive article in DVM magazine)

Babesiosis (in Carter: Major Infectious Diseases of Dogs and Cats, IVIS, 2005)


Bartonellosis

Bartonellosis: veterinary and human implications (Edward Breitschwerdt, DVM)

Haemobartonellosis in dogs (Drs. Foster & Smith)


Tick Biology, Identification etc.

A comprehensive key to tick identification (University of Lincoln, UK)

Tick Research Laboratory (University of Rhode Island)

Tick Research Laboratory (Texas A&M University)

Tick Research Laboratory (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Ticks and tick-borne diseases in Texas

The Brown Dog Tick (University of Florida)

Tick Biology (University of California, Davis)

The Acarology site at Ohio State University has tick information, guidelines for tick removal, and several good links. Their paper on tick removal instruments explains in detail how a tick attaches, including a tick bite video. The video is graphic and informative, but the file size is 23 MB, so unless you have a high speed connection it will take a long time to download.


General Veterinary Reference Material

Merck Veterinary Manual, online



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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking | The Australian

Article from:  The Australian

ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.

Antarctica has 90 per cent of the Earth's ice and 80 per cent of its fresh water. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilisation of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.

However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.

East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades".

Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.

"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally," Dr Allison said.

The melting of sea ice -- fast ice and pack ice -- does not cause sea levels to rise because the ice is in the water. Sea levels may rise with losses from freshwater ice sheets on the polar caps. In Antarctica, these losses are in the form of icebergs calved from ice shelves formed by glacial movements on the mainland.

Last week, federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett said experts predicted sea level rises of up to 6m from Antarctic melting by 2100, but the worst case scenario foreshadowed by the SCAR report was a 1.25m rise.

Mr Garrett insisted global warming was causing ice losses throughout Antarctica. "I don't think there's any doubt it is contributing to what we've seen both on the Wilkins shelf and more generally in Antarctica," he said.

Dr Allison said there was not any evidence of significant change in the mass of ice shelves in east Antarctica nor any indication that its ice cap was melting. "The only significant calvings in Antarctica have been in the west," he said. And he cautioned that calvings of the magnitude seen recently in west Antarctica might not be unusual.

"Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off -- I'm talking 100km or 200km long -- every 10 or 20 or 50 years."

Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m.

A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Server Break-in

Hacked


I had fun picking apart a breakin last week. This happened at the beginning of March using the imaginative user/pass combination of scanner/scanner through to the sshd port on a 10.4 PPC XServe.
Access to the machine was first achieved on March 3. On March 21 a directory was created in /var/spool/samba called .kde which comprised of a command and control application that connected to a series of IRC servers to enable to hacker to control the machine to send out spam. A crontab for the user scanner was setup
* * * * * /var/spool/samba/.kde/update >/dev/null 2>&1
This ran the update script which then in turn ran the run script which then ran the executable –bash (note the preceding hyphen) found in /var/spool/samba/.kde/
Just killing the process did nothing because the crontab kept kicking it back off again.
The preceding hyphen made it quite difficult to search for this via the command line as it kept thinking I wanted to apply the switches bash to the command. This is a PPC executable which surprised me as I thought it would be a shell script.
Via the command and control interface a program was created in /var/spool/samba/send which sent out virus laden email messages.
I recommend making sure that port 22 is accessible to sshd from the internet. Further information can be found here…
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050707140439980
It is worth restricting the users able to access sshd via either the AllowUsers directive in /etc/sshd_config or via the restricted services section of Server Admin. Above all please make sure that the root user is not enabled for sshd access and that any users that are setup have c0mpl1c4t£d p4$$w0rds. I prefer using usernames like adm1n or adm1nist4t0r rather than plain old admin. Public/Private keys should be setup. The almighty Bombich has a brilliant writeup as part of his rsync tutorial.
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html
I believe everything on the server is now cleared up.
Chris

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Zero Config Remote Support

Mac

Mac Help Mate

Fleas & Diatomaceous_earth

http://www.permaguard.com/items.html

http://www.dirtworks.net/Diatomaceous-Earth.html

http://wolfcreekranch1.tripod.com/de_retailers.html

http://www.greenharvest.com.au/pestcontrol/diatomaceous_earth_prod.html

http://www.earthworkshealth.com/products.php?

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Diatomaceous_earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth

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Thermate Explosion