Public Health looking for dog involved in bite incident
Public Health Madison and Dane County is looking for information about a dog that bit a person on Friday. The incident occurred around 9:45 a.m. near Bronner Rd and Stonebrook Cir in the town of Middleton. The bite occurred when the person was walking their dog in the area and a dog that was running loose approached and began to fight with the victim’s dog.
The dog is described as a type of Spaniel or Portuguese Water Dog with light golden long fur, between 50-60 pounds and wearing a collar for an invisible fence or shock collar.
PHMDC asks that anyone with information about this incident call the Police and Fire Dispatcher at (608) 255-2345 and ask for an Animal Services Officer.
If the dog is not found, the bite victim may be required to complete a series of expensive shots to prevent rabies.
PHMDC is reminding everyone that if you or your pet are involved in a bite situation, you should always exchange contact information with the other person.
Local training program aims to enhance athletes’ physical
BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – Club 7, a training program for Valley athletes, opened up its first facility Saturday afternoon in Boardman.
“A blessing,” Club 7 owner and CEO Antonio Page said. “Our motto is ‘Love and trust the process and a reward is guaranteed.’ So, we are the living proof of that.”
Club 7 has been working with athletes since 2013. Training sessions were previously held anywhere that had the space.
“We would basically be going to the high school turf,” Boardman wide receiver Cam Thompson said. “Indoors, we would go to the WATTS. I went to Niles for a little bit, so him having our facility is really good.”
Club 7 works with athletes of all ages. Its mission is to enhance not just the physical well-being of its members, but also the mental. Club 7 recently partnered with a mental therapist.
“We’ve seen that that was a need, and a lot of kids didn’t understand or know about that because they thinking physical, Page added. “‘I need to go out there, score touchdowns or hit a home run.’ So we thought that that would be important for us to bring that to our company.”
Club 7 is home to many local standouts, including a pair of Boardman seniors. Kentucky commit Sean O’Horo and Eastern Illinois commit Cam Thompson both train at Club 7 ahead of their college seasons.
“I learned a lot of stuff with Coach DT,” Thompson said. “And he’s shown me where my foot supposed to be placed in during routes and stuff, so”
“Speed stuff, agility, speed,” O’Horo added. “Just working work on my starts and stuff and just get ready for college.”
There’s good reason to worry about the health risks of plastics
Some findings suggest tiny plastic particles could disrupt immune and endocrine systems, damage organs, and cause other health problems. An emerging domain of research shows that plastic consumption and pollution harms human health — particularly for the world’s lower-income communities.
This builds on a growing field of research revealing the dangers of plastic on the environment — especially marine ecosystems. Of the over 8 billion tons of plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10 percent has been recycled.
“Plastic threatens human health at every stage of its production pipeline — from the extraction of the fossil carbon, oil and gas, that is plastic’s main constituent, to its manufacture, use and disposal,” said Philip Landrigan, director of the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health and lead author of the Lancet Commission on pollution and health.
The connection between plastics and health was also highlighted in Africa by researchers from Stanford and the Technical University of Mombasa. After decades of hunting for mosquito-borne viruses in coastal Kenya, they received one of their greatest tips from a group of elementary schoolchildren.
The scientists had been trying to uncover the breeding grounds of mosquitoes causing a number of illnesses that regularly sicken over half of Kenya’s coastal population — including dengue, chikungunya and others that can cause severe fevers, headaches, rashes, joint pain, life-threatening bleeding and death.
With these diseases on the rise, researchers were teaching schoolchildren about the life stages and habitats of insects that serve as vectors. On a homework assignment to find immature forms of mosquitoes in their communities, the children discovered something unexpected — disease-carrying mosquitoes breeding in nests of plastic trash around their homes.
“We were astounded,” said Stanford pediatrician and researcher Desiree LaBeaud, who led the project. “The children’s discovery helped us realize that the majority of mosquitoes were breeding in plastic trash and other containers littering streets and people’s yards.”
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