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Dengue fever outbreak in Hawaii has global impact
The Guardian ^
| 1/21/2015
| Jennifer Abbasi
Posted on 01/21/2016 12:47:13 PM PST by Smokin' Joe
Experts warn that we should be prepared for more dengue in the US and around the world. ‘Hawaii is a piece of a much bigger phenomenon that’s happening globally,’ says Dr. Peter Hotez at Baylor College of Medicine. It’s peak tourism season in Hawaii, and the state’s Department of Health has issued a warning for visitors and residents: dengue fever is spreading on the Big Island. More than 150 people on Hawaii Island have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Travel
KEYWORDS: dengue; denguefever; hawaii; nofunatall; turd; world
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:48:23 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
One of my nieces and her husband live on Oahu. :(
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:50:22 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:50:38 PM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
To: trisham
Tell them: “Don’t get bit by mosquitoes..”
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:51:30 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:52:39 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:53:46 PM PST
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
To: trisham
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:55:48 PM PST
by
Jean2
(ox)
To: Jean2
I still remember when the Hawaiian islands didn’t have mosquitoes.
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:57:23 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Celebrate Pathogen Diversity.
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posted on
01/21/2016 12:58:01 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Smokin' Joe
Thanks for the ping. Not good. Death by a thousand cuts.
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posted on
01/21/2016 1:05:43 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
To: trisham
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posted on
01/21/2016 1:11:23 PM PST
by
Jean2
(ox)
To: Smokin' Joe
Ummm...let me think, DDT or that over the counter bug repellant that works so well, which to chose?
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posted on
01/21/2016 1:11:26 PM PST
by
norton
To: Covenantor
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posted on
01/21/2016 1:11:45 PM PST
by
Jean2
(ox)
To: Smokin' Joe
Please put me on your dengue list. I had it a year and a half ago and have lived to tell the tale ... over and over and over again.
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posted on
01/21/2016 1:18:37 PM PST
by
Jemian
(War Eagle!)
To: Smokin' Joe
great. I’m going to the big island soon.
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posted on
01/21/2016 1:19:20 PM PST
by
RC one
("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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