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EDF Renewable Energy, a U.S. unit of the French utility Electricite de France SA, bought the 49 percent stake of a Texas wind project that it didn't already own and expects to start construction in June.
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We liked the hotel. Will go back again for Harmoni One (under the same Harmoni Group). It's worht to pay for that price.
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10 Crazy Bets You Can Actually Make On Super Bowl XLVI
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There's just something about NFL football that makes us want to slap on some war paint, throw back some beers and make drunken messes of ourselves. Some fans are clearly more into this than others and it's those hardcore sports nuts that we all get our inspiration from.
The NFL playoffs enter the divisional round this weekend. Just eight teams remain with a chance of playing in the Super Bowl in Indianapolis on February 5. Green Bay, San Francisco, New England and Baltimore will all host games after enjoying a bye during wild card weekend.
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We won't know for almost a month if the Green Bay Packers' 15-1 season ends with a second straight Super Bowl win, but the team's continued success has certainly helped it snag the title of America's most popular football team.
Tim Tebow's magic returned just in time to get Denver a win, as higher-seeded teams won all of the NFL's 'Wild-Card Weekend' games. Here's a recap of this
The NFL playoffs start Saturday. Four division champions host first-round games this weekend, while Green Bay, San Francisco, New England and Baltimore enjoy a bye week and wait to begin their Super Bowl quest.
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What better way to start off the new year than with a ton of firings? Raheem Morris and reportedly all the assistant coaches and coordinators of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were asking themselves this question when they lost their jobs Monday.
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Pittsford blaze levels tractor dealer's garageBy Brent Curtis
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A fire destroys a warehouse at Giddings Equipment and Kubota Tractors in Pittsford early Thursday afternoon, closing Route 7 as fire crews from area towns cannot put out the stubborn blaze. Tractors were pulled out of the building as flames consumed the structure.PITTSFORD - Flames consumed a garage at Giddings' Kubota tractor dealership on Route 7 today.
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Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, known for his use of gun powder to create art, recently used a whole lot of it pay tribute to his grandmother's 100th birthday with a stunning art piece, "Sky Ladder". The pyrotechnic art piece lit up the sky above Quanzhou, south-eastern China on Monday, utilizing fireworks and a giant balloon to create the effect of a fiery ladder building itself 1,650 ft up into the sky.
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- Real Goods Solar (NASDAQ:RGSE): Q2 EPS of $0.28
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- RGS Energy (NASDAQ:RGSE) has reaped net proceeds of $4.4M by selling (as previously announced) units consisting of one share + the right to buy 0.3 shares at $4.20, at a price of $3.65 per unit
- The microcap solar installer's shares are rebounding after having fallen 57% from a June 25 close of $4.36. A solar stock selloff and SEC subpoena disclosure didn't help.
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- RGS Energy (NASDAQ:RGSE) has tumbled to $2.21 after disclosing an SEC subpoena related to a 2014 private placement. 627K shares have already been traded, more than 2x a 3-month daily average of 312K. The 52-week low is $2.16.
- RGS is now down 30% over the last two days, after joining other solar stocks in falling sharply yesterday.
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- The solar installer says it "believes that it has complied fully with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, and intends to cooperate fully with the government's investigation." It also mentions (as previously disclosed) "four of the investors in the Company's July 9, 2014 private placement have asserted claims against the Company and certain current and former officers and directors in three separate lawsuits alleging certain misrepresentations and omissions in the offering."
- Ahead of the disclosure, RGS fell 15.8% in regular trading. Shares are well below where they traded at the time of the private placement.
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- Solar stocks are among the top decliners on a morning the Nasdaq is down 1.4%, thanks to a global selloff in equities triggered by Greek news. The Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN -4.1%) is now down 21% from an April peak of $50.00; it's still up 16% YTD, after having tumbled in 2H14.
- Major decliners include U.S. firms SolarCity (SCTY -4.9%), First Solar (FSLR -4.3%), SunPower (SPWR -4.2%), SunEdison (SUNE -5.1%), Vivint (VSLR -7%), and RGS Energy (RGSE -8.2%), Chinese firms JinkoSolar (JKS -7.4%), Yingli (YGE -6.4%), China Sunergy (CSUN -8.3%), ReneSola (SOL -5.5%), and Trina (TSL -5.4%), and Israeli inverter/power optimizer maker SolarEdge (SEDG -5%).
- Some news: 1) SunEdison and its TerraForm Power YieldCo have closed their $350M acquisition of Atlantic Power's 521MW wind plant portfolio. 2) SolarCity, vita its homebuilder partner program, has launched new energy storage and fixed-rate solar electricity pricing options in California (easily its largest market). The electricity, provided via 20-year deals, is said to feature a cost "equivalent to the lowest standard residential electricity rates of California's largest utilities." 3) SolarEdge is partnering with system provider Andalay on a solution that allows SolarEdge's optimizers to be quickly integrated with Andalay's solar modules.
- Last Thursday: Home solar installer/electricity provider Sunrun files for IPO
- Update: Also possibly hurting the group: A Supreme Court ruling blocking EPA regulations meant to limit emissions from coal power plants. The court ruled regulations need to take costs into account.
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- RGS Energy (NASDAQ:RGSE) is selling units consisting of 1 common share plus the right to buy 0.3 shares at $4.20 at a price of $3.65, 16% below yesterday's close. Net proceeds are expected to total $4.4M.
- Shares have fallen to $3.56 premarket. News of the offering comes a day after RGS rose 19% on news it's converting its subordinated debt and "a substantial amount" of its Series A/C warrants into stock.
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- RGS Energy (NASDAQ:RGSE) states it has "converted all of its subordinated debt to Class A common stock and entered into agreements to exchange a substantial amount of its Series A and C warrants for Class A common stock."
- The subordinated debt conversion involved turning $3.15M in principal and $1.09M in accrued interest owed to top shareholder Riverside Renewable Energy Investment into 1.29M shares at $3.29 apiece.
- Series A and Series C warrants are being converted into 1.33M shares. RGS also notes Series B warrants have been exercised into 1.55M shares in Q2, yielding net proceeds of more than $4M.
- RGS had $992K in cash at the end of Q1, $1.96M in term loan/credit line borrowings, $3.15M in related party debt, and $9.9M in warrant liabilities. As of May 5, cash + available borrowings under the maximum allowed borrowing base totaled $3.26M.
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I've no problem with the use of my photographs for your own purpose's but please be kind and ask first. My wife and I put in a lot of hours for "our projects" and each and every one is important to us.
As for transfers please see Find-a-Grave rules for all transfer requests. I am very willing to add information that you have on individuals.
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Yvonne Smith
Thank you for the transfer!
Thanks for the transfer of my grandfather (4x great), Emanuel Smith, #130699868. I have already added some info and will be adding more as I get it.
I can see this stone is in pretty bad shape, but I was wondering if next time you're out there at that cemetery, if you could see if you can read anything else on the stone. Specifically, I'm hoping that it says something like, aged 83 years, x months, x days, to help me calculate his birthday. I think it's Jan, 1795, but it could be 1794. I don't know if you're able to use chalk or paper and pencil to etch over the stove and see if any other info can be obtained. If you can, great, if not just let me know.
Thanks for being a nice graver. I do my part here in Albuquerque too. I appreciate your work.
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Daniel and Audie Briggs, I am hoping you will let me use your photos in my family tree project. I am writing a report on the family for my cousins and I would love to include your photos with the information I will write from www.findagrave.com I add the person's name who took the photo and the date it was taken under the photo, so that the family and future family members know where the photo came from and to give credit to the one who took the photo. At this time I only know of Doris R. James
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Anne Harvey Obara
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Daniel and Audrey,
Thank you for all of your hard work on posting information relating to the Lakeview Cemetery. It is greatly appreciate.
I am researching a great uncle for a friend of my father's and it looks as if you may have solved a mystery for this friend. Could you please tell me how you found out that the grave marker in the photo section posted on Find-a-
Grave (in the Lakeview Cemetery) belonged to Joe Micelli since it does not have his name on it, only the years 1855-1933? That information would be a huge help to his great nephew, Mickey Marcella.
Again, thanks for all of your hard work and hopefully solving a mystery for a family who has spent many years wondering about their family member who died single.
Anne Harvey Obara
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Daniel and Audrey,
Thank you for all your hard work on the memorials. It is greatly appreciated. I would like to request the transfer of my brother's (James Thomas Briggs) memorial to my management.
Thanks - Kaie
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got it and best wishes
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Yes, You do it or ME?
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Thank you for your kindness.
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There is a photograph on E-Bay of Eda May Wade and her brother C D Wade. http://www.ebay.com/itm/c1895-Mt-Sterling-KY-Sister-Brother-C-H-Bryan-photographer-/161754631445?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25a953cd15
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Thanks so much for the transfer! :-)
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Are you certain she was buried at that cemetery? There were about 4-5 plots that had footstones with no info on them, so I guess she could have been in one of those.
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Public information about prevention of zoonoses should be based on the perceived problem by the public and should be adapted to regional circumstances. Growing fox populations have led to increasing concern about human alveolar echinococcosis, which is caused by the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. In order to plan information campaigns, public knowledge about this zoonotic tapeworm was assessed.
By means of representative telephone interviews (N = 2041), a survey of public knowledge about the risk and the prevention of alveolar echinococcosis was carried out in the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland in 2004.
For all five questions, significant country-specific differences were found. Fewer people had heard of E. multilocularis in the Czech Republic (14%) and France (18%) compared to Germany (63%) and Switzerland (70%). The same effect has been observed when only high endemic regions were considered (Czech Republic: 20%, France: 17%, Germany: 77%, Switzerland: 61%). In France 17% of people who knew the parasite felt themselves reasonably informed. In the other countries, the majority felt themselves reasonably informed (54–60%). The percentage that perceived E. multilocularis as a high risk ranged from 12% (Switzerland) to 43% (France). In some countries promising measures as deworming dogs (Czech Republic, Switzerland) were not recognized as prevention options.
Our results and the actual epidemiological circumstances of AE call for proactive information programs. This communication should enable the public to achieve realistic risk perception, give clear information on how people can minimize their infection risk, and prevent exaggerated reactions and anxiety.
Public attitudes towards zoonoses play a major role for a successful implementation of prevention, control and management measures [1]. The planning of such measures is as much a socio-political issue as a biological or parasitological one. The development of strategies to inform the public on risk and prevention of zoonoses must be based not only on the results of scientific research of risk factors but also on the analyses of the perception of the problem by the public [2,3]. This can differ from region to region. Therefore communication about prevention measures should be adapted to regional and population-specific situations.
Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by larval stages of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis (EM), is a serious helminthic zoonosis [4]. In Europe, the life cycle predominantly involves red foxes Vulpes vulpes as definitive hosts and several rodent species as intermediate hosts [5]. Human infection risk is affected by environmental [6,7], occupational and behavioural [8,9] and socio-economic factors [10,11]. However, the environmental contamination with infective E. multilocularis eggs is mainly determined by prevalence rates in foxes and fox population densities [12].
After the successful rabies vaccination of foxes since the 1980s, European fox populations started to increase and are nowadays even higher than before the rabies epizootic [13]. Furthermore, foxes have started to colonize many conurbations and cities, thereby carrying E. multilocularis into close vicinity to humans [14]. Several recent studies suggest that an increase of fox populations can accompany increasing prevalence rates of E. multilocularis in foxes [15,16]. This suggests an increasing environmental contamination by infective E. multilocularis eggs in the past two decades and indeed a recent survey in Switzerland revealed an significantly increased incidence of AE after 2000 [17].
In order to plan effective information campaigns, public knowledge about E. multilocularis, human alveolar echinococcosis and possible control measures were assessed by means of telephone interviews in four European Countries. The objectives of the study were (1) to identify and understand the level of public knowledge on E. multilocularis, (2) to analyze the differences between the countries taking part in the survey, and (3) to draw conclusions for future country-specific information campaigns.
For the study European countries were chosen with considerable difference in the dynamics of the fox populations, the epidemiology of E. multilocularis and the information on AE provided to the public. After a first evaluation we selected the Czech Republic (CZ), France (FR), Germany (DE) and Switzerland (CH). Country-specific details are given below.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is classified as rabies free since 2004 [18]. It is believed that fox populations have experienced a pronounced increase during the last decade [19]. Urban foxes are reported from cities such as Prague and Pilsen (Martinek, pers. comm.). However, public awareness of urban foxes is minimal because of their low abundance.
Up to date only one human case of AE has been recorded [20]. The patient lived in West Bohemia. In this area prevalences of up to 63% have been found in foxes [19]. Pavlasek detected E. multilocularis in foxes from North, Central and Southern Bohemia [21] and unpublished records of infected foxes are reported from the eastern part of Czech Republic [21,22].
The presence of E. multilocularis was communicated to the Czech public for the first time in spring 1999 by a popular television broadcast. The contribution was prepared as shocking reportage (Martinek, pers. comm.). Subsequently many articles with inaccurate information were published. In response a TV production was broadcast by the state TV with cooperation of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic. This program (1999) was the only information provided on a national level before the public survey of this study started.
Rabies was eliminated in France in 1998 [23]. Correspondingly a significant increase of fox density indices has been reported [13]. Urban foxes are present in several cities in France, but the actual national status has not been systematically documented [24,25].
In France 212 cases of human AE were diagnosed between 1981 and 2000 [26]. Most cases were concentrated in Eastern France (Franche Comté, Lorraine and Haute Savoie). Some cases were also clustered in the Department of Auvergne [26,27]. This distribution corresponds with the distribution of E. multilocularis–infected foxes [28].
Public information on E. multilocularis has been carried out mainly at a regional level in areas where the parasite has long been known. At a national level an information leaflet was issued by the French Ministry of Health. However, this leaflet was distributed only after our public inquiry in autumn 2004 (Raoul, pers. comm.).
There still exists a residual rabies focus in the border triangle of Hessen, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland Palatinate [29]. However, the decline of rabies seems to parallel increasing fox populations [13]. There exists no systematic survey on urban foxes in Germany, but they seem to be present in many cities: for example in Berlin [30], Kassel (Hesse, U. Hohmann, pers. Comm.), Munich [31] and Stuttgart [32].
A total of 102 human cases of AE were recorded between 1981 and 2000 [26]. Most cases are clustered in the southern federal states Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria [26]. Today this parasite has been confirmed in all regions of Germany [33]. However, high prevalences exceeding 30% are mainly reported from fox populations of the south of the country [33]. In northern Germany areas of high endemicity appear to be interspersed focally in low endemicity regions [34,35].
E. multilocularis received regular public attention through numerous articles and broadcasts during the past two decades. However, there has been no information campaign on a national level. In federal states with high prevalences of E. multilocularis the public is officially informed with leaflets and newspaper articles.
Switzerland was declared rabies free in 1999 [36]. The Swiss hunting statistics gives evidence for a strong increase of the Swiss fox population from the mid 1980ies to the mid 1990ies (Swiss Federal Office for Environment). Urban foxes have been recorded in all Swiss cities [[14] and unpublished data]. In Zurich, the largest Swiss city, fox density was estimated to be 9.8–11.2 adult foxes per km2 [37].
Between 1952 and 2005 a total of 494 cases of human AE have been recorded with patients originating from all parts of Switzerland [17]. However, there exist huge differences in the prevalences of E. multilocularis in foxes, with high rates in northern cantons and low rates in cantons within and south of the Alps.
Information on the fox tapeworm was intensively carried out in the 1980s. With regard to prevention the information is concentrated on berries, fruits and vegetables contaminated by EM eggs, gardening and handling foxes. In the German part of Switzerland, an extensive information campaign (INFOX) started in 1997 [38].
We undertook a public survey by telephone. The interviews were conducted in the framework of an omnibus by ISO certified (ISO 9001:2000) marketing companies (Synovate GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany: Czech Republic, France, Germany; IHA-GfK AG, Hergiswil, Switzerland: Switzerland). An Omnibus is a multipurpose survey, where several clients share the same questionnaire. It is a cost-effective method, since all fixed costs are shared. Omnibuses are carried out as nationwide studies.
The interviews were held between March 29 and May 28, 2004. In Czech Republic, France and Germany, an automated dialling system was used to randomly select listed and unlisted telephone numbers (RDD). In Switzerland, where most numbers are listed (92% in 2004 [39]), the random sample was based on listed numbers only and interviews were conducted in German and French according to the prevailing mother tongue of the region. The single Swiss Canton where the majority is of Italian mother tongue (Ticino) was not considered in the survey. Cell phones were not included in all countries.
The interviews were carried out according to the "Random-Quota" method, i.e. regions and community size were randomly selected and age and sex were chosen according to a representative quota. Up to 5 attempts were made to contact each number. For each country, a population sample of ≥ 500 women and men between 15 and 74 years was interviewed. The data was weighted according to "quota" and standardized on a sample size of 500 persons.
In 2004, there were 3.6 Mio main telephone lines in the Czech Republic (population: 10.2 Mio, proportion: 35%), 33.9 Mio in France (60.6 Mio, 56%), 54.3 Mio in Germany (82.4 Mio, 66%) and 5.4 Mio in Switzerland (7.5 Mio, 72%). The omnibus surveys from Synovate GmbH go through to someone in a mean percentage of 83.1% and a mean percentage of 14.1% of the persons are willing to give an interview. The rest of the called persons either do not fit the quota or they refuse to participate. The response rates are not significantly different between the three countries. The corresponding percentages for Switzerland, where only listed numbers where called, are roughly 70% (successful contacts) and 35% (effective interviews).
The survey consisted of five questions (Table 1). The first question asked about the attitude towards urban foxes. Then people were asked about their knowledge of EM (question 2). People who had heard about EM were asked a further three questions concerning their perception of information received (question 3), their risk perception (question 4) and their knowledge about possible countermeasures against an infection with AE (question 5). The questionnaire was translated into Czech, French and German by national experts in helminthology who were familiar with the common terms concerning this zoonosis (see Additional file 1) and the five questions were always asked in the same order for each interview.
Table 1. Questionnaire of the representative telephone inquiry conducted in Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland (March – May 2004).
Additional file 1. Questions of the inquiry. Questions of the inquiry – French, Czech and German version: Inquiry in French, Czech and German language
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Each questionnaire contained data about age and sex of the interviewees, household size, size of the community and region where they lived. In Czech Republic eight, in France nine, in Germany sixteen and in Switzerland four regions were differentiated. For each country separately, the regions were classified into areas with relative low, middle or high infection pressure (Variable STATE EM, see Table 2). The classification was done by parasitologists who have a detailed knowledge of published but also unpublished epidemiological studies on E. multilocularis of their country (Karel Martinek, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republik; Francis Raoul, University of Franche-Comté, France; Thomas Romig, Germany; Peter Deplazes, Switzerland).
Table 2. Regional classification in low, middle and high endemic areas for E. multilocularis (variable STATE EM) based on the expertise of epidemiologists of Czech Republic (CZ), France (FR), Germany (DE) and Switzerland (CH).
Data analysis
In order to reach the quota of age and sex occurring in the population the data of the questionnaires were weighted with factors between 0.20 and 3.48 (median = 1). The result of the analysis with square-root transformed data did not differ substantially compared to original data. Therefore we used untransformed data. A logistic regression model selection procedure (stepwise backward method using log-likelihood statistic) was used to identify factors affecting knowledge about the fox tapeworm (levels of response variable: 0/1, question 2) with the following variables (levels): COUNTRY, AGE (< 25, 25–44 and > 44 years), SEX, HOUSEHOLD (1–2 persons, > 2 persons, answer refused), COMMUNITY (< 5'000 inhabitants, 5'000 – 90'000 in Czech Republic and 5'000 – 50'000 in the other countries, > 90'000 in Czech Republic and > 50'000 in the other countries), STATE EM (low, middle and high endemic areas for EM, see Table 2) and ATTITUDE (attitude towards urban foxes, five levels, see question 1 in Table 1). In order to recognize country-specific effects of the other independent variables, all two way interactions with the variable COUNTRY were added to the initial model. The same procedure was applied to identify factors affecting their perception of information received (levels of response variable: 0/1, question 3). χ2 randomizations were done with Actus2 [40]. Exact binomial 95% confidence intervals (CI) for means of binomial variables were calculated with unweighted data according to the method of Clopper and Pearson [41]. All other calculations were carried out with the statistical software packages SPSS 10 [42].
Attitudes towards urban foxes
The attitudes of people toward urban foxes were investigated by the question "Do you think, it is all right that there live foxes in urban areas?" (Table 1). Sample size of the interviews was 500 in France, Germany and Switzerland and 541 in Czech Republic. The number of persons not having a personal opinion towards the presence of urban foxes was highest in Czech Republic and lowest in France (CZ: 24.6%, FR: 0.0%, DE: 10.6% and CH: 8.4%; randomized χ2 = 176.7, 3 df, p < 0.001). Among the people who had either a positive or negative attitude towards urban foxes, only 19% (95% CI: 15, 23) of Czech citizens agreed with urban foxes. This amount was significantly lower compared to France (31%, 95% CI: 27, 35), Germany (37%; 95% CI: 32, 41) and Switzerland (38%; 95% CI: 34, 43; randomized χ2 = 44.4, 3 df, p < 0.001).
Knowledge about the fox tapeworm
Of the 2041 interviewed persons 808 (39.6%) had heard about the fox tapeworm when asked the question "Have you ever heard about the fox tapeworm?" (Table 1). The stepwise backward logistic regression procedure revealed a highly significant model (model χ2 = 720, 25 df, p < 0.0001) with the factor COUNTRY as the most significant factor (Table 3). In Czech Republic 13.7% (95% CI: 10.9, 16.9) and in France 17.6% (95% CI: 14.4, 21.2) had heard about the fox tapeworm. In Germany and Switzerland this amount was considerably higher with 62.6% (95% CI: 58.2, 66.9) and 69.4% (95% CI: 65.2, 73.4), respectively. There are considerable regional differences within the countries (see Additional file 2). Furthermore the variables AGE, STATE EM, COMMUNITY and ATTITUDE and the 2-way interactions of AGE, STATE EM and ATTITUDE with the variable COUNTRY entered the final model (Table 3). In general, a higher proportion of older people had heard about the fox tapeworm. In Czech Republic the youngest and oldest age classes had more frequently heard of EM than the age class 25–44 years (Figure 1A). In Germany, people from regions with higher prevalences of E. multilocularis in foxes have more frequently heard about the fox tapeworm. However, in other countries no such trend was found (Figure 1B), and also in high endemic regions of Czech Republic and France knowledge on EM was moderate (19.5% and 16.5%, respectively).
Table 3. Factors determining the proportion of people who "have heard about the fax tapeworm" in Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland.
Additional file 2. Regional differences in knowledge on Echinococcosis multilocularis. Regional differences in knowledge on Echinococcosis multilocularis: Percentage of interviewees that have ever heard about the fox tapeworm in low, middle and high endemic regions of the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland.
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Figure 1. Factors affecting whether somebody has "heard about the fox tapeworm". Percentages of interviewees in Czech Republic (CZ), France (FR), Germany (DE) and Switzerland (CH) that know the fox tapeworm (error lines = 95% confidence intervals). (A) AGE: age of interviewee. (B) STATUS EM: rough estimate of E. multilocularis prevalence in foxes in the region where the interviewees live: 'low/not detected' = prevalence is low or the parasite has yet not been detected, 'middle' = middle prevalence, 'high' = high relative prevalence (in Switzerland no low endemic region was identified). (C) COMMUNITY: '< 5'000' = the interviewee lives in a community with less than 5'000 inhabitants, '5–50/90'000' = community with 5 to 50 thousands inhabitants (FR, CH, DE) or in a community with 5 to 90 thousands inhabitants (CZ), '> 50/90'000' = community with more than 50 thousands (FR, CH, DE) or 90 thousands (CZ) inhabitants. (D) ATTITUDE: 'negative' = interviewees think it is very/rather bad that foxes live in urban areas, 'positive' = interviewees think it is very/rather good that foxes live in urban areas, 'don't know' = interviewees do no have an attitude towards urban foxes.
People from small villages had in general more frequently heard about EM than people from medium sized and large communities (Figure 1C). In the Czech Republic and France, no clear effect of the attitude towards urban foxes was observed (Figure 1D), but in Switzerland people with neither positive nor negative attitude had heard about the fox tapeworm less frequently. In Germany people with a negative attitude towards urban foxes had more frequently heard about EM than people with a positive attitude.
All people that had heard about the fox tapeworm were then asked whether they had "received reasonable information about the fox tapeworm" (question 3, sample size is given in Table 4). The model selection procedure revealed a highly significant model (χ2 = 71.2, 7 df, p < 0.0001) including the variables COUNTRY, AGE and COMMUNITY. No two-way interactions entered the model and the variable COUNTRY was again the most significant parameter (Table 4). The proportion of the residents who felt to be reasonably informed was significantly higher in Czech Republic (54%; 95% CI: 42, 67), Germany (60.1%, 95% CI: 55, 65) and Switzerland (56%, 95% CI: 50, 62) than in France (17%, 95% CI: 10, 27). Furthermore younger people and people from large cities felt to be less informed than older people and people from small and medium sized communities, respectively (Table 4).
Table 4. Factors determining the proportion of people who think that they "received reasonable information about the fox tapeworm" in Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland.
Risk perception and protection measures
The answers to the question "Do you think the fox tapeworm is a health risk to you?" (question 4, Table 1) revealed a significantly different risk perception regarding the fox tapeworm between the investigated countries (randomized χ2 = 61.1, 6 df, p < 0.001). In Switzerland, only 12.1% of the people who had heard about the fox tapeworm thought that EM represents a high risk. In France this amount was 42.5% (Figure 2). Every fourth person in Czech Republic, France and Switzerland thinks that the fox tapeworm is no risk. In Germany this amount was considerably lower (16.5%, Figure 2).
Figure 2. Risk perception regarding the fox tapeworm. Percentages of interviewees in Czech Republic (CZ), France (FR), Germany (DE) and Switzerland (CH) who think that the fox tapeworm represents no risk, a low risk or a high risk for themselves. In the graph only interviewees are included that have "ever heard about the fox tapeworm" (CZ: N = 68, FR: N = 88, DE: N = 343, CH: N = 309).
With the question "Do you know how you are able to protect yourself against the fox tapeworm?" (question 5) people who had heard about the fox tapeworm were offered 6 possibilities how they could protect themselves against AE. In France the mean number of selected answers was 4.3 and in Germany 4.8. In Czech Republic and Switzerland only a mean of 2.5 and 2.3 answers were selected.
Among the three food related answers ("cook food", "wash food" and "no wild berries") the option "no wild berries" was selected most frequently in Germany and Switzerland. This answer was least frequently selected in Czech Republic and France where the answer "wash food" was given priority (Figure 3). In Germany each answer was selected from over 70% of the interviewees and it was the only country where the answer "treat foxes" did not rank at the last position. In Czech Republic and Switzerland a higher variation between the different answers was recorded ranging from 20.3% and 14.7% ("treat foxes") to 60.8% and 55.9% ("avoid fox droppings"), respectively (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Knowledge on prevention measures against alveolar echinococcosis. Percentages of interviewees who selected among 7 answers to the question "Do you know how you are able to protect yourself against the fox tapeworm?" in Czech Republic (CZ), France (FR), Germany (DE) and Switzerland (CH). Each person was allowed to select several answers. People who selected no answer are summarized in the category "don't know" (white bars). Error lines represent 95% confidence intervals. In the graph only interviewees are included that have "ever heard about the fox tapeworm" (CZ: N = 68, FR: N = 88, DE: N = 343, CH: N = 309).
The public awareness, the perception about the quality of information as well as the risk perception differed considerably. In the Czech Republic and in France, a minority of less than 20% has already heard about the fox tapeworm, whereas in Switzerland and Germany a majority of more than 60% knew about the parasite. Inquires harbor the risk that some parties of the population are systematically excluded. In telephony surveys, this could specifically be persons/households without phones e.g. student population. Telephone answering machines and caller identification services threaten the ability to conduct valid and reliable survey research via telephone by undermining the representativeness of the resulting sample [43]. It was recognized that non-coverage rates due to non-listed phones and omitting cell phones are growing issues [44]. Considering these methodological limitations, the results of telephone inquires have to be interpreted carefully. However, in comparative analyses as in our study with four neighbouring countries, we assume that this problem is less important, because bias, if any, might be similar in these countries.
Interestingly even in some high endemic areas where AE has been present for decades (e.g. Eastern France) public knowledge is moderate. To improve existing information channels, future surveys should therefore reveal where people received their information on alveolar echinococcosis and their general health information. Furthermore considering data on educational level and/or income could shed light on how and from where people get their knowledge about this zoonosis. However, experience from Switzerland suggests that proactive information can help to improve knowledge on AE without provoking exaggerated reactions. In 1996, the Integrated Fox Project IFP, a research and information project on the increasing fox populations and fox transmitted zoonoses was started in Switzerland. The information campaign INFOX was part of the IFP and in 1997 and 1998 it publicized the project extensively by means of TV series, radio interviews and many newspaper articles [38]. Part of the information campaign was centred on the fox tapeworm with the aim to prevent overreaction or panic and to show people how to deal with foxes and the risk of AE. The information campaign focused on the German speaking part of Switzerland. This might explains why significantly fewer people had knowledge about this parasite in the French speaking part (see Additional file 2). Our results give evidence that access to information on E. multilocularis can enhance realistic risk perception. In France, where fewer interviewees thought that they were reasonably informed, more interviewees believed that this zoonosis was either no risk at all or a high risk, than compared to Germany and Switzerland.
Most AE cases in Central Europe were recorded from western Austria, south-western Germany, eastern France, and Swiss Midlands [17,45], where recent surveys revealed high prevalence rates of E. multilocularis in foxes [46]. Data from Central Europe indicate low annual incidence of new AE cases between 0.02 and 1.4 cases per 100'000 persons for entire countries or large endemic regions [47]. However, in Switzerland, a recent survey revealed a significant increase of annual incidence from 0.10 to 0.26 cases per 100,000 between 1990 and 2005 [17]. This increase is likely to reflect a general increase of fox population densities and/or the simultaneous rise of urban foxes with a concomitant increase of infection pressure in urban environments [12]. Thus urban inhabitants, which according to our study are less informed, should be especially targeted in future information campaigns. As urban habitants tend to have a more positive attitude towards foxes [48,49], information on keeping foxes shy and not feeding them is of special significance for this target group.
AE is a very slowly progressing disease. Frequently the disease is incurable and requires a life-long medical treatment. Therefore it is of importance that also young people, who appear to be generally less well informed, are addressed in communications about this disease.
The public survey show that between 40% and 83% of the people feels not reasonably or not at all informed about the fox tapeworm. The severity of the human AE provides attractive material for shocking reports that promote panic and overreaction which could result in unrealistic public demands. Uninformed people are especially susceptible to misinformation that can provoke anxiety and exaggerated preventive behavior which have a negative impact on quality of life. Nevertheless, regarding the increased infection pressure with E. multilocularis in many regions, proactive education of the public is urgently required.
Our results and the epidemiology of E. multilocularis call for appropriate publicity about this zoonotic parasite. Based on the public survey we propose that future public information should:
1. Enable the public to achieve a realistic risk perception by pro-active communication
When dealing with foxes, pets or other risk factors, there is a clear demand for pro-active public information about the fox tapeworm. However, alveolar echinococcosis is a rare disease. To avoid overreactions every information campaign should clearly state this fact.
2. Focus on target groups and regions that are at higher risk
Information campaigns should prioritize regions with high infection pressure and where actual knowledge is poor. Furthermore information should target groups that are at higher risk (e.g. dog owners, farmers) and that have poor knowledge (young people, urban population).
3. Give clear information, based on scientific facts, on how people can minimize their infection risk
Information campaigns should give clear advice how it is possible to protect against the disease and focus on actions that people can do by their own rather than on actions that are in the responsibility of the authorities (e.g. "treat foxes"). Recommendations for prevention should focus on options that are clearly related to the infection risk. For example dogs could be a source of infection [9] and the knowledge about this risk and its prevention by deworming dogs regularly should be improved.
4. Give information on rules how to behave toward foxes
Foxes live in close neighbourhood to humans. As fox populations in urban areas clearly can not be removed or noticeably regulated on a long term, every information campaign on the fox tapeworm should include information about urban foxes and on how to behave towards them (e.g. no feeding, no taming).
Ethical Approval
The data resulted from an anonymized telephone survey. Study participants were first asked whether they accept to take part in our survey. No approval by an ethics committee is necessary for the applied methodology.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
DH contributed to the conception and design of the study, participated in the statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript. FB performed the statistical analyses and helped to draft the manuscript. SG conceived of the study, participated in its conception and design and organized the telephone survey. TR, PD and PK participated in the conception of the study and critically revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors thank Gianreto Raselli for his advice for the design of the questionnaire, Karel Martinek and Francis Raoul for their useful suggestions and the translation of the questionnaire and Paul Torgerson for his valuable comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. The study was supported by the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science (EchinoRisk Projekt QLK2-CT-2001-001995/BBW Nr. 00.0586-2).
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Oklahoma tornadoes: Co-owner of storm-chasing company responds to criticism
Hon and her husband decided to take a storm-chasing tour for their 10th anniversary.
"I really wanted to face my fear," Hon said. "It was the best experience of my life up to that point."
Hon said she's been to Europe and Asia and has never enjoyed a trip like she did the storm-chasing tour. Much of the trip was spent passing time waiting for storms or on long drives to get into position to intercept a possible storm.
She said the tour guides were professional and always kept them at safe distances from storms. Hon saw three tornadoes during her tour. Only the last one was visible for any length of time.
"It was glorious," Hon said. "It's hard to explain."
Hon said none of the storms her group chased were near cities, and she wouldn't have been comfortable knowing the tornadoes she was watching could be killing people or destroying homes.
"Every place we went on our tour was in the middle of nowhere. It was pasture land," she said.
Hon called her fascination with tornadoes a "morbid curiosity."
'More good than harm'?
That curiosity is what makes companies like Extreme Tornado Tours possible.
Holder said his company does what it can to help during and after storms. When they are chasing in rural areas, they spot storms for the National Weather Service.
Ultimately, Holder said the idea of his company is to offer a safe way for people to feed their curiosity about tornadoes.
"There are going to be people who want to go chase who are going to put themselves out there," Holder said.
"You might as well create an industry that creates a fairly safe environment that people can do it in."
The company is 6 years old, and there are others like it. Holder said he has only recently gotten complaints about the concept.
He lives in Norman, a few miles from where the May 20 tornado hit in Moore, and understands that emotions are high.
"I'm not a coldhearted person who is just trying to turn a profit from tornadoes," Holder said.
"I'm not going to deny the fact that it is a delicate subject. I really feel like, when it is all boiled down, we are doing more good than harm."