Posted by Librarian on 4/2/2002, 4:29 pm

Other public reportings 11-20-95 Notes: Mary Van Horn - Inside Edition 1-800-334-8466 Spoke with the following persons within the past few days. NPA, Dr. Omar M. Amin, Phoenix, Az., State of Oklahoma Health Department, and Tom Taylor, Muskogee, Okla. Halth Dept. regarding skin parasites reported in Oklahoma. Kathy Bareiss - Staff Reporter, Mesa Tribune (602) 821-7466 25 South Arizona Place #565 Chandler, Az. 85225 Kathy Bareiss wrote an article about the skin parasite reports published in the Mesa Tribune early 1996, prior to the story published in the National Examiner, May 7, 1996 edition. Martha Brownlee, KFMB-TV Channel 8. , 7677 Engineer Road, San Diego, Ca., 92111. Phone (619) 495-7567, Fax (619) 560-0627 KFMB-TV, P.O. Box 85888, San Diego, Ca., 92186 This story was aired possibly in early 1997 on the evening news. Several San Diego residents reporting this parasite were interviewed. Little America, Wyoming, May 16, 1996, reports of Springtails infesting residents. This reporting may have originated on an Indian Reservation. Notes refer to Gail Miller, Health Department Officer who had been in touch with Dr. Roger Nasci, CDC, Ft. Collins, Colorado, who was supposedly accepting specimens. This information was provided by a resident of the State of Arizona. ALSO, KSAN-TV, San Diego did a piece probably 1995 about this skin parasite thing and interviewed several people in San Diego. According to one of those interviewed, six people in the San Diego area who lived less than two miles from the ocean and in a two square mile area had the parasite and some of them had tremendous swelling.