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"Mexico has been struggling with an alarming increase in the deadly hemorrhagic form of dengue, which now accounts for roughly one in four cases. The government has confirmed 3,249 cases of hemorraghic dengue for the year through Sept. 15, up from 1,924 last year."
1 posted on 09/29/2007 5:57:16 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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Dengue Ping!

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2 posted on 09/29/2007 6:01:44 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
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Well at least we’re not “harming the environment” with DDT anymore!


3 posted on 09/29/2007 6:27:32 PM PDT by Slump Tester ( What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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Emphasis:

“Mexico has been struggling with an alarming increase in the deadly hemorrhagic form of dengue, which now accounts for roughly one in four cases. The government has confirmed 3,249 cases of hemorraghic dengue for the year through Sept. 15, up from 1,924 last year.”


4 posted on 09/29/2007 7:13:44 PM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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Coming soon to a city near you...


5 posted on 09/29/2007 8:03:02 PM PDT by Amazon7 (FR is my homepage.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

I got dengue when I lived in Asia. Luckily, once you’re over it you don’t have any after attacks like with malaria.

My uncle was in the S. Pacific during WWII and got malaria there. He was a big, strong man, a farmer, and I can still remember once when we were working digging post holes when he had a malaria attack and suddenly started shaking from a malaria attack and got as weak as a baby.

What I was told was that the type of mosquitoes that carry dengue are different from those carrying malaria. Dengue carriers lay their eggs in tiny, still pools of water. The kind you find in urban environments: a discarded tire, a coconut shell, an empty can. It’s much harder to eradicate dengue carriers with ddt than with the anepholis (sp) mosquito that carries malaria and lays its eggs in swamps.


6 posted on 09/29/2007 9:11:52 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: SwinneySwitch

DDT ban is responsible...


7 posted on 09/29/2007 9:15:51 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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The government here reported a virus in a province in the interior of Panama last week which killed six young children over night. Symptoms were dehydration, vomiting, diarea, headaches, etc.. Could be this dengue or something else. The symptoms sound like a bad case of the fly and if your not careful and take the kids to the doctor when they get these symptoms they could die. The fly always comes during the school year and my kids get it two or three times a year, most likely from their classmates. I plan to get my kids to the hospital at the first signs of a cold or flu.
9 posted on 09/30/2007 10:00:22 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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Dengue fever, ¡no!
Boogie fever, ¡si!


10 posted on 09/30/2007 10:06:36 AM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody was going to say it...why not me?)
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