8 I The Lovell Chronicle I February 22, 2018
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BRUCELLOSIS
MEETiNGWELL ATTENDED
con nued from page one
BY NATHAN OSTER
Human slavery, what
can be done to protect chil-
dren and how to recognize
and help a victim of traf-
ficking will be the subject of
a seminar Monday, Feb. 26,
at 6:30 p.m. at the South Big
Horn Senior Center in Grey-
bull. The public is invited.
Karen Fettig, who orga-
nized the seminar, said Dep-
uty Nathan Kreider of the
Big Horn County Sheriffs
Office will give a presenta-
tion on human slavery and
that a Wyoming girl who
was trafficked by ner own
family will be there to share
her story with attendees.
Fettig said she teach-
es seminars on protecting
children from child molest-
ers and that human traf-
Blackburn, asking if he'd be
willing to support anoth-
er seminar. Kreider, who is
among the deputies who re-
cently received training in
the problem of human traf-
ticking, will be presenting
Monday night.
"We are on a main
north/south corridor from
Billings south, and on main
east/west corridors from
Worland and Shell to the
east, so this is a prime place
for human trafficking to oc-
cur7 she said, noting that
many victims are moved
through this area.
The girl who will be
sharing her story in Grey-
bull spoke at a presenta-
tion last year in Cheyenne.
Fettig was among those in
attendance.
ticking is a topic that alligns "We in Wyoming, we
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perfectly with her ministry tend to think, t cant hap-
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because kids who are mo-pen here, but he story will
lested are more apt to be show that it can, and did in
trafficked, one of our small towns:' said
"People don't know Fettig.
much about the problem, Fettig said many of vic-
but through my own min tim s of human trafficking
istry, I'm trying to bring are either runaways or pea-
awareness7 she said, add- pie who are tricked into
ing that seminars have been leavinag their homes by of-
done in the past in both fers of fame or riches. The
Worland and Greybull. problem has grown even
She said she recent- vorse, she said, due to the
ly approached Sheriff Ken popularity of social media.
animals with infected abort- dent for ranchers to screen especially should take ad- basis. He noted that there is with the aborted fetus, flu- imal tests positive, a DNA
ed fetuses, placentas, bodi- any abortions that occur in vantage of the opportunity, a grant available to pay for ids or reproductive organs, test is conducted to deter-
ly fluids or milk and inges- their herds and to take oth- Logan said many pro- many of those services. He said there has been only mine the origin of the dis- '
tion of the bacteria during er precautions to protect cedures for the prevention Dr. Brandl Schmaker,one transmission to a hunt- ease using "CSI" type of
this time. their herds. " of transmission are volun- an epidemiologist for the er that he is aware of, cau- technology.
Though spillover trans- "The quicker you findtary in areas that are not state, discussed how diag- tioning ranchers to be veryWinslow said the "tar-
missions from elk to live- out you have the disease in designated for surveillance, nostic testing is conduct- careful about exposure get" approach keeps an eye
stock have occurred in your herd and address it, Current DSA areas include ed at the state lab, which he from handling, aerosol ex- on high risk areas, without
some areas, Logan and oth- the betterS' he said, noting Park, Teton and Sublettesaid tests between 45,000 posure or tl e splatter of imposing costly require-
er speakers from the bru- that brucellosis is 0nly one counties. He reiterated that and 70,000 samples a year. fluids, since the disease is ments on ranchers Who
cellosis team assured lo- of many causes when cattle Big Horn County is not aSchumaker said most of particularly virulent and have herds that are not at
cal ranchers attending the miscarry their calves. DSA area and that ranch-the tests are conducted on very hard to get rid of once risk. '-
meeting that there has not Logan added that any ers should do all they can blood samples, which only contracted. Dr. Logan added, "We
been a documented case of late term abortions should to prevent it from becom- shows an exposure to the Dr. Thach Winslow, know we have nine ro-
transmission to cattle from be of special interest, since ingone, since DSA areas are disease, noting that the lab D.V.M an assistant veteri- positives in wild, elk 'hd
Big Horn County that share typically a brucellosis subject to a lot of regulation, needs tissue Samples from narian with the state's live- we know we don t have it
the same grazing areas with caused abortion occurs late Some of those preventative the animal in order to verify stock board, showed mapsin cattle. Since we don't yet
elk in the Big Horn Moun- term. measures include frequent the disease is present. ' of exposed elk movement know how widespread it is
tains in the summer months. He noted that risk as- testing of herds, vaccinating He said though the :dis- within hunting areas 39-41 in elk, we need to continu-
In spite of the low sessments are available cattle and making use of the ease is transmittable to hu- and back and forth across ally monitor the situation to
chance of transmission, Lo- through the state and said state lab to test blood and mans, it is rare. Transmis- the Montana border. He make sure it doesn't spread
gan said he thought it ranchers in high risk areas tissue samples on a regular sion would require contact noted that whenever an an- to cattle:'
LEGISLATURE 2018: FLITNER continued from page one
the idea of adding a com-
puter science component
to the educational basket of
goods. The big question, she
said, is how to make it equi-
table and how to fund it.
While the budget bill
is front and center in the
House, Flitner said she's
been paying close attention
to renewed talk of privat-
izing the Wyoming Retire-
ment Center in Basin and
the Wyoming Pioneer Home
bill, as it currently stands,
funds the two facilities for
one year but that an amend-
ment has been floated to
; add a second year of fund-
ing. It's too soon to tell what
direction talks will take in
the coming days, she said.
"We're fighting very
,hard to keep that facility for
the community of Basin:'
she said.
As for the rest of this
week, Flitner said, "Our for
in Thermopolis cus is going to be the bud-
,We!re all'trying t0 do get, looking closely at each
what we can to help7 she department, what the gov-
said, referring to herself and : RER JAMIE FLITNER
emor s recommendations
other lawmakers with con I get the sense the WRC are and what the appropria-
stituents in the Big Horn alongwith the Pioneer Home tions recommendations are"
Basin: no longer fit with Where the Lawmakers are ulti-
"What's driving it is the state wants to be. I don't get mately required to reach an
fact that the Appropria- the sense that (lawmakers) agreement for a balanced
tions Committee is tasked want to be in nursing home budget.
with finding money, and be- facilities, that they feel like "I don't foresee a lot of
cause of our, budget situa- they are in competition with angst" in getting there, she
tion, they're lifting up every private businesses, and that said. "People are working
cushion in the couch try- private nursing homes are together. It's always inter-
ing to find money wherever meeting those needs:' esting to see how it all plays
they can. Flitner said the budget out"
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