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\[unclear\] to and/or if you have any information that you can share regarding public outreach,
<br />education, prevention, um, that’s going to a wide public outreach person.
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<br />KK: If they call, I’ll be happy to go through a list, I know that hopefully, I’m hoping that the
<br />brucellosis, lepto is being covered and \[unclear\] is being covered in the hunter safety classes,
<br />anybody that’s using dogs – it’s, you know, you’ll always have that risk of picking up either of
<br />those diseases, usually dogs, so, it’s a hodgepodge: USDA, BIIS (the Big Island Invasive Species)
<br />has some good PR. USDA – we work hand in hand with them. This is where I got some of these
<br />pamphlets here and, um, HDOA, and so when I inter-act with producers or other people I always
<br />try and educate them – it’s a big deal.
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<br />AA: Abraham, District – 5, Shannon get Kim’s contact information here.
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<br />SM: \[Unclear\]
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<br />AG: Austin Griffey, District – 6…
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<br />AA: OK. Hold on. We’re gonna put Kim’s email in the Chat so if anybody from the other
<br />Commissioners or from the public have any other questions, they can direct it to our email.
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<br />KK: Yeah, that’s my personal cell phone – feel free – that’s the best way to reach me and then that’s
<br />my work email and I check that daily, even on the weekends.
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<br />NR: Do you prefer a call or a text message?
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<br />KK: I’ll take either. I’m in the Acres so sometimes calls don’t go through, but texts seem to. And then
<br />if you text, you know, I can call.
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<br />?: \[Unclear\] you had your phone on you first.
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<br />KK: Oh, hush… Inside joke, I forgot my phone one day.
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<br />AG: Austin, District – 6. So, when I first started buying stuff and the pigs was kind of alarming so
<br />that’s why I brought it up, so we could spread awareness to the Commission.
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<br />AA: Ah, Abraham, District – 5. So, yeah, all these diseases are bad, the worms are bad, I
<br />encountered them before, like I said, and it’s part of the reason why I came on to this
<br />Commission, I did, I had conversations with DOFAW. They don’t – in the State level – they don’t
<br />really have any public information besides these pamphlets. I never seen this pamphlets but I
<br />have other pamphlets, um, it’s pretty much all they say, if you have an influx in worms that, you
<br />know, you can see in the upper spinal area – discard the animal, as far as, you know, the
<br />brucellosis, trichinosis, leptospirosis and everything else, because our game is such a high
<br />sustainable resource even though and I not picking on Kim but even though she makes it look
<br />horrible and bad but in some of our communities they’re still a high valued resource so the
<br />education that needs to be done is like what she said, using the proper PBE – if you have a job –
<br />you gotta go through a whole bunch of EP education, safety courses just depends on what you
<br />do. Simple things, you know, for us hunters, you know, wear the rubber boots, go buy a box of
<br />gloves if you can afford it, wash your hands as soon as you can as far as taking care of the meat
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