Is Prince Prospero hitting the links today?
Posted on 10/20/2014 7:29:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new aggressive daytime-biting mosquito capable of transmitting debilitating and possibly deadly viruses has been found in the Los Angeles region, officials announced Wednesday.
Known as yellow fever mosquitoes, the insects were found Oct. 7 and 8 in Commerce and Pico Rivera, respectively, according to the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District.
The Aedes aegypti species, which has black and white stripes and grows to about a quarter-inch in size, can transmit dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever -- viruses that can cause painful symptoms including headaches and high fever, officials said.
"While these debilitating viruses, so far, aren't locally transmitted in L.A. County, the mosquitoes that can transmit them are now here," Susanne Kluh, the district's director of scientific-technical services, said in a statement. "Infected travelers can bring these viruses to Los Angeles County."
The mosquito is the third species of the Aedes genus found in Los Angeles County in the past three years, said district spokesman Levy Sun.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Coincidentally, 80,000 potentially infected travelers have just been distributed around the entire country. With many more on the way.
Enjoy your flu season folks!
From Wiki:
“Nearly a billion people live in an area of the world where the disease is common. It is common in tropical areas of South America and Africa, but not in Asia.”
Gee, I wonder if the misquitos hitched a ride with recent immigrants from Central and South America?
In the south and east, we have the related Asian tiger mosquitoes, which were introduces about 30 years ago. They can carry the same diseases.
.... Infected travelers can bring these viruses to Los Angeles County.” ....
Fundamental transformation.
That wouldn’t be the first time Wiki was in error.
Just invite in more illegals and give them sanctuary cities and that’ll be the norm.
Why is it that the major, nationally known conservative radio talk show hosts, except Michael Savage, hardly ever nor never mention the link between illegal immigration and diseases? Is it considered to be in bad taste?
It just keeps getting gooder and gooder.
RE: It just keeps getting gooder and gooder.
Is gooder now a recognized English word? :)
Is Prince Prospero hitting the links today?
It better be.
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Third World L.A. deserves a Third World vector.
Ebonics 102
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