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Pangolin. Bats are bad. Bats are bad about co-mingling and harboring all of these different <br />viruses and \[unclear\] each other and the bats lower their body temperatures so they don’t get <br />sick from it but they can then spread it and so “One Health, “I mean Corona Virus is a perfect <br />example of that. SARS is another – that came from camels and then or MEARS Mid-Eastern <br />Acute Respiratory, whatever, but the Corona Viruses are bad about that, so with our merging <br />diseases the CDC does all the work on that, mainly with Department of Agriculture we’re looking <br />at protecting our agricultural industry so there’s a lot of diseases that are out there – TRICK was <br />one of them. Hawaii didn’t really regulate it cause we didn’t have it. It wasn’t deemed a high risk <br />and I asked Dr. Moniz one day – I said, I see a lot of these it’s an amoeba type thing that causes <br />abortions in cattle carried by the bulls once infected – the adults cannot be cured, cows will <br />generally clear it but there’ll be a few that will keep it and it can cause calf losses of up to 70- <br />80% of your calf \[unclear\]. So, pretty big impact but the thing is with our budget, we were low <br />risk, we didn’t have a lot of bulls coming back and forth. We found a herd that was infected <br />because they were being exported to the mainland – that mainland state decided to regulate it <br />and I’ll be darned, and it was positive and so… <br /> <br />LT: OK. Mahalo. I’m fascinated. Is there anything like for my plants I spray Neem and Peppermint <br />soap. Is there anything to, I guess, put around the house or in the yard that might prevent some <br />of these bacteria diseases that transfer to other things in residential neighborhoods, like what <br />can I tell people that spray in their yard to help keep it clean from the diseases? <br /> <br />KK: Really? Not, not much, because you have to be careful with the disinfectants that are being put <br />out there but the \[unclear\] and sunlight does a great job of getting rid of – and if anything if you <br />could push back wild animals coming in and urinating and defecating on your property in a <br />concentrated area, ah, simple things like the cats with toxoplasmosis – if there was a sandbox <br />put a lid on it so they can’t get in there and poop. <br /> <br />LT: OK. <br /> <br />KK: You know, simple things like… <br /> <br />LT: Mahalo… <br /> <br />KK: Yeah… <br /> <br />AA: Thanks. We have a member from the public in the room has a comment. <br /> <br />SM: Yeah, I have a question. And just for those of you – my name is Shannon Matson. I work for <br />Council Member Jenn Kagiwada in District – 2, the Hilo area and we’ve been trying to find <br />another Commissioner to fill your vacant spot here but we still haven’t found anyone, um, <br />\[unclear\] very concerning – just as a member of the public – not in my official job and I’m <br />wondering \[unclear\] what sort of education or public outreach is being done for farmers and <br />hunters on everything you just brought up – is that a State thing, is it a County thing – \[unclear\] <br />who’s getting this information out to the public is one of my questions and then, um, \[unclear\] <br />that you mentioned that there’s \[unclear\] with all sorts of different issues, um, is anyone at the <br />State level or at the County level collecting data on the animals that are \[unclear\] is that being <br />recorded anywhere, ah, does anyone \[unclear\] if so who would they contact to do that, um, <br />13 <br /> <br /> <br />