Posted on 07/06/2007 4:30:14 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Tegucigalpa, The propagation of dengue fever in Honduras caused local health authorities to decree a state of alert in another four departments in this Central American nation Thursday.
Honduran Public Health Minister Jenny Meza confirmed Francisco Morazan, Cortes, La Paz and Olancho were declared in green alert, while Tegucigalpa, the capital, is already on yellow alert since Wednesday, because of the increase of sick people.
In Tegucigalpa, 22 cases were reported with deadly hemorrhagic dengue fever and more than 800 cases with classic dengue this week alone.
Some 4,000 Hondurans have been taken ill with the disease so far this year, informed Lenin Quezada, head of the National Program of Anti-Vector Struggle against Diseases.
The green alert covers fumigation, destruction of breeding grounds for the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, transmitter of the disease, and cleanup work.
The yellow alert is declared before a potential epidemic when infection indexes exceed 5 percent.
Public health centers in Honduras will receive equipment, personnel and medication to care for patients with hemorrhagic and classic dengue fever, health authorities assured.
Okay, let’s make sure we allow people with this disease (and many others) to sneak into our country, infect others, and use our medical facilities—free of charge!
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
How many deaths is rachel carson responsible for?
Bring back DDT!
This story matters a great deal. The disease extends northward to the Mexico beach resorts. Also, there are growing American expatriate retirement communities all over that area.
Dengue is the quiet little secret of mosquito borne disease. Malaria gets more newspaper coverage, but Dengue has a far higher growth rate.
This is just great! With the borders being in the shape there in because of or feckless do nothing politicians we now NOW have to worry about these deadly deseases wich can easily march across our borders.WHY? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CLOSED!!!!!!! THESE GUYS ARE USLESS, “WHEN IM PRESIDENT WE’RE GONA DO THIS AND THAT AND THIS AND THAT”, BULL S##T, YOU’LL DO NOTHING BECAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE THE BALLS! LETS CLEAN HOUSE PEOPLE STARTING IN 2008, LETS VOTE IN REPS THAT SAY WHAT THEY MEAN!
HUH? You can’t contract dengue from another human, only from a mosquito. Hate to tell you this, but one reason dengue has become a problem in South Texas is that the State of Texas Health Department refused to cooperate with the Mexican State of Tamaulipas and “Project Hope” in a joint mosquito eradication program. At the time, then Governor George W. Bush had a moronic public health commissioner who claimed there was no problem. With the climate of south Texas, yeah, there is a problem.
Mr. Bush, PLEASE fire Chertoff and get someone who can actually do the job and keep the invasion forces out of our borders. What’s next; 5% of Los Angeles County coming down with hemmorhagic dengue fever?
I knew it. Bush’s fault. You beat me.
No... the State Health Department’s fault. Still, I’m not immune to being bothered by Bush’s record of appointing people more for their “political correctness” than for their competence within a given field.
However, the point is that dengue and immigration have nothing to do with each other. What are we going to build, a giant mosquito net along the border? OUR native-born mosquitos carry dengue too.
Did not know this I stand corrected!
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