Posted on 02/01/2016 6:31:41 AM PST by Rockitz
The World Health Organization will meet today to decide whether the Zika virus outbreak suspected of causing a surge of serious birth defects should be considered a global emergency on the scale of Ebola.
The UN health agency warned last week that the mosquito-borne disease was 'spreading explosively' in the Americas, with the region expected to see up to four million cases this year.
Experts also fear the warm weather system El Nino will fuel the outbreak by increasing the mosquito population.
Brazil sounded the alarm in October, when a rash of microcephaly cases, a devastating condition in which a baby is born with an abnormally small head and brain, emerged in the northeast.
Since then, there have been 270 confirmed cases and 3,448 suspected cases, up from 147 in 2014.
There are also growing fears for the Rio Olympics in August, with female athletes saying they may not compete over concerns of contracting the illness.
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That’s a winner quote!
Most of ‘em around here in Jax, FL called ‘em ‘bird sanctuaries’. No moving water, never seen a fish in one (if fishing is even allowed).
Just stagnant, green, ‘pristine’ waters.
Must have built up an immunity; those in the M.E. seem to breed like cockroaches. So much so, they’re flooding Europe again.
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Interesting. One of my first introductions to these induced swamps was doing a site for a retail building in Moose Lake, MN. The city required a ‘rain garden’ be part of the plan, and the state DOT had volumes of plans and specifications for rain gardens...which I thought was very odd, considering Minnesota’s reputation for lakes...but somewhat expected given the strangely liberal (Hubert Humphrey etc) slant of Minnesota.
So to hear that they are spraying for mosquitos still is quite surprising.
I grew up in the deep south, and thought we had a lot of mosquitos...but one year we took a month long camping trip through Michigan and into Canada, and back down through Minnesota. I learned real quick that mosquitos thrive up north...but I would have to say, during that particular summer, Michigan had Minnesota beat in the Mosquito misery index. It was awful.
I was surprised myself when we first moved out to the west metro. I’m in the most conservative part of loony MN which was planned on our part. I guess some sanity still reigns in our area. Good, common sense people live here and everyone lives near a body of water. It’s beautiful but the skeeters are BAD!
I don't know.
If ‘west metro’ means Wayzata area, my uncle works there. Slowly my relatives are fleeing Minneapolis.
I’m even a few miles west of Wayzata. World of difference from living in Minneapolis for 25 years. I suspect a lot of states are like that once you get away from the big cities.
THIRD BASE!!!
How much money do they want to extort that will not go towards this?
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