I have a buddy that caught it about a month ago...was in the hospital two weeks! Lives in El Monte.
Posted on 08/25/2004 9:56:28 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
Wow. I forgot there WAS private property in Cali.
This is classic. So four deaths or so in L.A. county might give them reasonable cause to intrude on private property?
There are one billion parallels that can be brought up.
Certainly more deaths yearly are from house fires caused by smoking in bed...should L.A. be allowed to verify that we are falling asleep without cigarettes in-hand?
Hilarious.
I have a buddy that caught it about a month ago...was in the hospital two weeks! Lives in El Monte.
I think they are going after people that have half empty pools with algaed and crud in them...
Yeah, that Constitution thingy can be a real pain. It must be frustrating trying to run a police state.
Los Angeles city officials are drafting an ordinance that would allow them to fine people up to $1,000 for refusal to clean up stagnant water.
You can have stagnant water breeding mosquitos in a tree crotch. There are ordinances in our area forbidding the "adverse pruning" necessary to treat that problem. This sounds more like a tax than a fine.
No joke. This is serious sh!t.
Out here in Ontario (San Bernardino County) hundreds of people have beeen sickened. This is a virus. You have it for the rest of you life.
There are dead crowes falling out of the sky everywhere.
So California is the swimming pool capital of the world and they are giant mosquito farms, if not properly maintained (like the one in the back of my mothers hillbillyish neighbor)
I would not be opposed to large fines for large bodies of stangnat water on ones property. They should set up a hotline to call and report the bastards too.
I'm not making this a joke, but I heard an LA city councilwoman on the radio today saying this epidemic should give authorities the right to enter private property.
And I don't agree.
The virus is serious, as is the influenza virus. Many people die from influenza in L.A. County every year, but I have yet to hear the city council suggest changing the due process standard for entering a person's property to control influenza.
I live very close to you, having just moved to NorthEast Riverside County. We are vigilant with mosquito repellent when we go to the park. But don't lose sight of the very small incidence rate of serious complications from the virus.
Let me add that if an unmaintained pool is VISIBLE to you, then all the city needs to do is visit and cite the offender if it is against city regulations. If not, the city should pass a new law.
I'm not against enforcement of laws against poorly maintained pools. Heck, my neighbor filled his pool despite the fact there was no functional gate between his backyard and the front of his house. We reported him to code enforcement because of the danger to small children (ours).
I'm only against causelss searches. If you see cause, then it's not a causeless search.
I think they are trying to get a better grip before they do mandatory aerial spraying....
if it keeps ramping up at 60% more cases a week til October, there is going to be a huge death count.... of course, the policitians would rather have the deaths than news coverage of them ordering aerial spraying.....everyone remembers the med fly coverage!
Just heard a call over the police scanner. Woman hysterical seeing dead crow outside her front window. Asking Animal Control to hurry over there. I bet the media is on CROW WATCH now.
I dunno about aerial spraying. But they have been spraying Scourge (yes that's actually what it's called) in my vector (The West Valley Mosquito Vector) for over a month, paticularly in Fontanna where several people have already died.
They are not on crow watch out here. There is hardly a day that goes by that you don't see one of these suckers laying on the ground dead from what I suppose is encephalitis.
They are spraying in Florida, and Colorado, and debating it in Arizona.
Woman May Be Infected With Polio-Like Form Of West Nile Virus
POSTED: 2:28 pm PDT August 25, 2004
UPDATED: 3:27 pm PDT August 25, 2004
LOS ANGELES -- Federal health officials are worried about a polio-like form of West Nile virus that has infected more than 30 people.
The latest victim is a California water skier who was bitten by an infected mosquito in Colorado last summer.
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta are monitoring the rare disease known as acute flaccid paralysis which struck down 32 residents last year in Colorado.
The disease is carried by birds and transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.
About 20 percent of those bitten by an infected insect show flu-like symptoms, while about one in 100 suffer the most severe form of the illness.
Just to clarify, I can't imagine that several people have died in Fontana this year due to West Nile virus.
According to the California West Nile Virus page here: http://www.westnile.ca.gov/ only two people have died in San Bernardino County this year.
The above is a helpful link for reporting dead birds and to inform others about mosquito control.
Let me add that I'm personally concerned about WNV, especially on behalf of my children. At a personal level, I'm alarmed and worried.
But my brian continues to try to keep my worrying tendency at bay. I continue to try to keep my wife and I from falling for the 'local news frenzy' trap by reminding myself about the relatively SMALL rates of infection and infinitessimally small rates of death in what is a large and populous state.
I believe they were both in Fontanna.
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