Posted on 08/09/2016 11:07:55 AM PDT by dtroxx
Areas of Miami, Florida, are now being sprayed with the insecticide naled in an attempt to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito — carrier of the zika virus. Naled, a potent neurotoxin that kills mosquitoes on contact, is perfectly safe, or so the Environmental Protection Agency insists, despite Puerto Rico’s rejection of its use to combat the spread of zika there — due to concerns about its safety.
To keep naled airborne where it would be most effective, the agent is sprayed in very fine aerosol droplets — about two tablespoons can be dispersed to cover an area the equivalent of two football fields, a local CBS affiliate reported.
If a ‘far greater’ amount of naled were employed, according to the Florida Department of Health, ‘it could cause a person to salivate more, feel numbness, headaches, dizziness, tremors, nausea, abdominal cramps, sweating, blurred vision, difficulty breathing and a slowed heartbeat.’
(Excerpt) Read more at realityofsense.com ...
Since when are we so concerned about the lives of the unborn?
Namby-pamby tree hugger scaremongering.
This pesticide is not discriminatory between pests and useful insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals. I fear it will have a devastating effect on many innocent organisms. The first line of defense-—banning illegals-—was blown, so people brought Zika with them from their pestilent native countries.
DDT did a trick on me
Now I am
A real sicky
Guess I’ll have to spread the news
That I’ve got no mind to lose
Thel’ll keep this up until the Florida population is more dumbed down than it already is and they will vote accordingly.
(semi-sarc)
Sharyl Attkisson Report .... is it Zika or the mosquito larvicide Brazil was using? Same mistake being made in FL where the “cure” is worse than the problem?
35 Facts (and Controversies) About Zika
https://sharylattkisson.com/35factsandcontroversiesaboutzika/
6. Zika virus has been around in other countries since the 1940’s.
7. Zika is considered one of the mildest mosquito-borne viruses.
8. At least 80% of people who get Zika don’t become sick and have no symptoms.
9. For 70 years, Zika wasn’t linked to microcephaly birth defects. The link was made only after a 2015 rise in microcephaly in Brazil coincident with a Zika outbreak.
10. Brazil originally counted 4,180 cases of Zika-related microcephaly from Oct.-Dec. 2015. Experts later ruled out Zika and other infections in a majority of cases.
11. An Argentina doctors’ group said Brazil’s rash of microcephaly was noticed shortly after some communities began using the larvicide “Pyriproxyfen” in drinking water. “It’s a hypothesis, a probability,” Dr. Medardo Avila Vazquez, a pediatrician in Cordoba, Argentina and main author of the report told NPR. “And for us, it’s more likely that it’s the chemical larvicide and not Zika.” (“Pyriproxyfen” is also spelled “Pyroproxyfen” in some publications.)
12. After the report by the Argentina doctors, one Brazilian state announced it would stop putting Pyriproxyfen in drinking water.
More at the link.
I guess using DDT is out of the question.
“Since when are we so concerned about the lives of the unborn?”
Precisely. Liberals should be happy that more Zika pregnancies mean more abortions.
Have there been Zika mosquitos in Florida. Or infected pregnant foreigners crossing the border to drop their anchor.
Naled:
TRADE OR OTHER NAMES
Trade names include Bromex, Dibrom, Fly Killer-D, Lucanal, RE 4355.
REGULATORY STATUS
Products containing naled must bear the signal word “Danger” (3).
INTRODUCTION
Naled is a fast acting, non-systemic contact and stomach poison in insects and mites (2). It is used as a short-term fumigant to control agricultural pests on ornamentals in greenhouses, animal and poultry houses, kennels and food processing plants (1, 6). Liquid formulations can be applied to greenhouse heating pipes to kill insects by vapor action. Naled is also used for municipal and other large area mosquito control programs (3). It has been used by veterinarians to kill parasitic worms (other than tapeworms) in dogs (6). Naled is available in dust, emulsion concentrate, liquid and ULV formulations (3).
Naled is one of a class of insecticides referred to as organophosphates. These chemicals act by interfering with the activities of cholinesterase, an enzyme that is essential for the proper working of the nervous systems of both humans and insects. Please refer to the Toxicology Information Brief on cholinesterase-inhibition for a more detailed description of this topic...
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/metiram-propoxur/naled-ext.html
They were found north of Miami:
http://www.kcci.com/health/miami-battles-zika-with-mosquito-spraying/41023912
Need to use DDT…it got a bad rap…they were spraying it to strong..
but it’s insecticide and not the mosquitoes that’s the real problem
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