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Squirrels and raccoons both love a sneaky feed from any source they can find. They are also known to be host populations for rabies (Lyssavirus).
The idea is simple: A food source provided for them with a slight twist. A detector tests the exhaled breath of the animal feeding from it, to determine
if it is infected with one or more of the deadly strains of Lyssavirus. The virus is carried in saliva, so it stands to reason that good test would be possible to devise.
Positive test and the trap shuts then the floor opens and the unfortunate and unhealthy animal is humanely killed with a large dose of CO2. Trap resets, luring in more animals for testing.
You just have to get them to associate rabies with pollen.
http://apitherapy.b...isease-monitor.html
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 14 2008]
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What do you do with the body? |
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Incinerate it, to power the device. In any case, incinerate it to remove the hazard. |
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Spread the ashes on the lawn. Keep the garden looking good for the next rabid critter. |
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How does the test work so fast? Can you do elisa assays on
breath? Methinks not, alas. |
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Maybe you could just measure the amount of slobber dribbling down it's rabid chin? |
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Might not work ... in these populations where it's endemic, there's a significant proportion of asymptomatic carriers. |
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//How does the test work so fast? Can you do elisa assays on breath? Methinks not, alas.// |
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Bit worried about that one. I thought of perhaps doing a quick automated microscopy and shape match (Lyssavirus usually has a bullet shape) to a known virus shape much the same way it is being used on a much larger scale to identify feral animals in Australia, for trapping or exclusion from water sources. |
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//significant proportion of asymptomatic carriers// I am going to stick my neck out here and say that these will be more of a problem than symptomatic carriers as they can pass the virus on but will not be harmed by it, like a Typhoid Mary. |
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Would be good if the CO2 produced by the burning critter could, in a bitter, ironic and twisted way, be returned to the killing jar [+] |
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I thought he was referring to the dribble, not the presence of the virus in their saliva. I am pretty sure asymptomatic carriers would still yield high virus counts. |
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I like your way of thinking [copro]. |
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If you get the test working and the critter is found to not be rabid could you work in the delivery of a prophylactic before sending it on it's never-to be-rabid way?
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// for trapping or exclusion from water sources//
But being hydrophobic, they'd stay away from water anyway, shirley?
//could you work in the delivery of a prophyactic [sic]//
Ever tried to persuade a squirrel to wear one? Thought not. |
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//Ever tried to persuade a squirrel to wear one?// |
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Maybe if you put some nuts inside... |
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//But being hydrophobic, they'd stay away from water anyway, shirley?// |
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Hah! That statement might have some currency if there was any rabies in Australia... there's not. |
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New animal drafting software applications use silhouette detection to trigger a gate system which routes pigs, goats and camels back out to pasture or into a holding pen, for eradication. Sheep, kangaroos, cattle and horses get to the water while the others miss out or are trapped. |
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//use silhouette detection to trigger a gate system //
I foresee plastic surgery becoming popular amongst undesireable ungulates. |
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If honey was used as the bait, bees could do the detecting for you. [link] |
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Well, now it has got some bees, all it needs is marmalade, you can't jam a rabid animal into a cage. |
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I guess that depends upon how much jam you use and how sticky it is. |
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//Well, now it has got some bees, all it needs is marmalade// sp. "banjoes" |
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// Maybe if you put some nuts inside // |
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And for that, you deserve no mercy WHATSOEVER ..... |
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