Mosquito Magnet
My property is mosquito FREE this year.
Posted on 07/10/2004 5:07:37 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
SAN BERNARDINO – A San Bernardino County teen is the 17th person in Southern California to be found infected with the West Nile virus, health officials said.
The 15-year-old boy began showing symptoms such as extreme exhaustion and fever at the end of June, Robert Miller, spokesman for the state Department of Health Services, said Friday. The teen was hospitalized with a neuro-invasive disease.
Sixteen others in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties have been infected with West Nile. The disease, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, is expected to spread throughout the state.
Health officials advise people to use insect repellent with DEET and wear long sleeves and pants when outside during dusk and dawn, mosquito breeding time.
Residents are also being asked to rid their property of standing water and to properly maintain swimming pools to prevent mosquitoes from breeding.
This year, there have been at least 78 reported human cases nationwide. Arizona has been hit especially hard, with 58 human cases and two deaths. No deaths have been reported in California.
Mosquito Magnet
My property is mosquito FREE this year.
You can thank the enviro-whackos who banned the best anti-mosquito-borne-illness blocker known to man.
thorugh the years of its existence, it save countless millions of human casualties from mosquito borne illnesses, especially malaria and yellow fever.
but now -- thanks to those who now bring you jimmy carter, billary clinton, and john-john kerry-edwards, we can bury hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who will die from the ban of DDT.
My state of Arizona is rated #2 for west nile which is puzzling to me since we have no rain & I haven't had a mosquito bite in 10 years.
Isn't that the strangest thing? On Independence Day I made sure I had a big citronella candle burning outside on the off-chance that a mosquito would invade our all-dirt backyard. You never know!
Where in SB County? SB County is the largest county in the USA.
http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.htm
site didn't work so tried again.
We had a dead crow in our neighborhood that's a sign of the virus, so we are a bit concerned, It has been reported by worldnet daily a few weeks ago (I don't have the link) that the stain of the west Nile virus here in the US is more aggressive than found any where in the world, with he exception of Israel. Also the virus for centuries was found only in the middle east, the reference also mentioned Iraq and it's science labs experimenting with this virus so go figure, perhaps we have found more of sadams WMDs.
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