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They’re Tracking The ‘Fever’
Using special traps, including one with a full-grown horse as bait, entomologists and veterinarians are tracking Potomac fever, the deadly disease threatening Virginia’s mult-million dollar horse industry.
The research team, from Virginia Tech and the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, is collecting bloodsucking gnats, flies, ticks and mosquitoes. In Northern Virginia, the team is surveying horses and pastures.
It is not yet known if these pests transmit the disease. Said Craig Turner, investigator on the research team: “(The disease) occurs primarily in mid-summer when insects and ticks are most active, so we can’t rule out the possibility.”
• Sludge Stirs Debate Next Door
Whether or not to allow use of Blue Plains sludge on a 900-acre farm ►wdering the Rappahannock River has stirred ongoing debate in Culpeper.
Blue Plains sludge, considered “clean” by many experts, is produced at the Blue Plains Water Treatment plant in Washington, D. C.
The plant’s distance from Culpeper has become the source of controversy. Some residents and officials are concerned about quality control of sludge produced outside Culpeper County.
Culpeper County already has granted permits for sludge application-sludge produced at the Town of Culpeper’s own sewage treatment plant.
Use of Blue Plains sludge also is being considered in Rappahannock. County supervisors have agreed not to take any action until a public hearing on the subject is held.
No date has been set for the public hearing. Rappahannock’s supervisors may discuss Blue Plains sludge as an agenda item during their regular meeting August 6.
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