Oh, YEAH?
Then explain JOHN KERRY!
Posted on 09/05/2005 1:08:21 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com
Doctors on the scene are seeing some cases of diarrhea and skin infections. Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans appeared today on CNN saying that mosquitoes are breeding there and will be feeding on dead bodies and spreading disease. He is wrong; mosquitoes are not attracted to dead bodies, since they feed on blood.
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[1] CDC: After a Hurricane: Key Facts About Infectious Disease
Includes: - Decaying bodies create very little risk for major disease outbreaks. - Outbreaks of infectious diseases following hurricanes are rare in developed countries (such as the USA). - Because cholera and typhoid are not commonly found in the U.S. Gulf States area, it is very unlikely that they would occur after Hurricane Katrina.
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Mosquitos are also drawn to their prey by carbon dioxide, which we exhale. Last I saw, the dead don't respire.
At least in Cook County.
You would think, with all the oil and chemicals floating on top of the water, there would not be much problems with mosquitoes.
I think that the CDC/ProMED reports are trying to properly downplay the disease threat and mosquito hazard. Mosquitos are a nuisance, not a threat.
Other than vaccinating the survivors for Hepatitus I doubt there will be many problems.
I did see a little blurb that had me concerned tho, when a mom said her toddler had measles. Many of the parents were saying their little ones were covered in rashes.
Wonder how efficient the infant vaccination program was in NO.
Money spent elsewhere is my guess.
Someone has to stand up and bitch-slap this Nagin. He thinks he's getting away with it. And it looks like he might be correct.
Hmmm. It is true that cholera isn't common, but that doesn't mean that it is unknown in the Gulf area; in fact, I think it's about the only area in the U.S. that has had sporadic problems over the last 30 years with cholera. I remember back in the 90s some incidents (though I think most of those were traced back to foreign travel or foreign food consumed in the U.S.).
Doing a quick Google, I found a cached paper from back in 1997 that had this about indigenous cholera:
Cholera may occur in persons who have not left the U.S. or eaten imported foods. A distinctive strain of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae, biotype El Tor, is endemic in the costal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, first identified in 1973. From 1965 until 1991, 56 cases of cholera associated with the Gulf Coast strain occurred, most acquired from ingestion of undercooked seafood, especially crab and oysters.
Strains of V. cholerae O1 identical to the South America epidemic strain have been isolated from oysters in Mobile Bay during routine surveillance in 1991 and 1992. No cases of disease from this strain have yet been reported.
Ya mean Crook County IL, lol (Im in Chicago burbs, crook county border)
How about the SciAm article on HTLV-III transmission by mosquitos noted in Belle Glade, Fl? Boy did that one get buried fast!
Oh, YEAH? Then explain JOHN KERRY!
That's easy. Even a dead creature will still respire if it's got three purple hearts!
That Hepatitus is not a possibility?
That there are no outbreaks of measles in inner city communities on a regular basis.
That measles is not a threat to women of childbearing age?
My point is Nagin's silliness. The CDC is downplaying the disease threat. Public health efforts are viewed by the ignorant as 'conspiracies'.
West Nile is a thought, mentioned by some doc on Fox today who also debunked the rotting corpse/mosquito prob.
Maybe the Mayor needs to quit giving interviews and watch Fox News. It'd be a whole new world for him!
A major contribution to Dr. Frankenstein's medicine! If only he'd known...
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