Little dad birdie outside of the cabin we rented last Wednesday. He and his wife had a nest under the porch on the porch light. He was not too happy at all about us staying there for the night. At several times he made attempts to dive bomb us.
Posted on 06/08/2008 9:58:13 AM PDT by billorites
There was a warning issued Thursday to homeowners after a Long Island woman's home was infested with "blood-sucking" parasites. It wasn't bed bugs that caused the problem, but bird mites.
"I was hysterical crying last night," said Crystal Shea, the daughter of the bird mite victim. "You know, I feel terrible for her. How do you watch your mom come out in a hazmat suit?"
The emotional daughter of the bird mite victim shared ominous looking photos of her mother being suited up in bio containment gear by emergency medical technicians responding to her S.O.S. from her Levittown home. They stripped her of her clothing, shoes, carted off her mattress, confiscated the wild bird nest from a bathroom vent and transported the patient to the quarantine unit at Nassau University Medical Center.
CBS 2 HD spoke by phone with patient Nina Bradica from her hospital bed in the isolation unit.
"My whole shower was covered with them," said Bradica, 45. "I didn't even know they were there at first, I was drying myself with my towel in the bathroom. That's how they got on me."
One of Bradica's doctors told CBS 2 HD bird mites can be a very severe problem.
"They can be a nuisance and some people have been infected for years with these bird mites and have had difficulty eradicating them," said Dr. Kenneth Steier.
Added Dr. Shadab Ahmed of Nassau Medical Center, "They can stick to the body. They are extremely tiny. I just sent three to be tested to the parasitology lab for identification."
Doctors say there is absolutely no public health hazard. Mites can't feed off human skin and will eventually drop off, but until then …
"They were biting her all night long," Shea said. "They were coming out of her ears, her nose, some other places."
Bradica tried to describe her discomfort.
"They do go inside you. They go in your nose. They go in your ears. They go in your mouth."
The victim's irate family is blaming her landlord, who drove off without commenting on why the home had not been fumigated.
Bradica told CBS 2 HD she is covered with welts and red bumps and wonders if her home will ever be livable again.
Bird mites usually infest bedrooms and bathrooms, but can quickly spread to the entire house.
There's one over my garden shed .. hmmm. Silly me, I never thought the mites would travel outside the nest.
Yikes!
We’ve captured injured baby birds before and at times I’ve seen little red mite type things coming off of them. I guess this is the same thing.
Little dad birdie outside of the cabin we rented last Wednesday. He and his wife had a nest under the porch on the porch light. He was not too happy at all about us staying there for the night. At several times he made attempts to dive bomb us.
Democrats?
YIKES.
I have a guest apartment at my house, and every year birds build nests above the door. We already had one build this year, and when her young flew the coop, another bird comes in and occupies the nest.
I always leave it there, don’t want to kill the baby birds, but it does make a mess (bird poop), which I just keep cleaned up.
I’m going to relocate that nest as soon as these babies fly off. Ewwww.
L.I. Woman Quarantined With Bird Mite Infestation 'They Were Coming Out Of Her Nose, Out Of Her Ears'
Ahhhhhhh yes ain't it grand, Bird Mites. Yet our new immigrant friends from the South wonder why we have laws against having LIVE CHICKENS IN THE $&@$ing HOUSE!! Then they b*tch and moan, scream discrimination and threaten lawsuits when 'we' say "nada" to the poultry because they; "did it back in Mexico".
I know this article isn't about Chickens, Poultry or ILLEGALS, but the end result and point is the same. These invaders want to turn a one bedroom apartment into a freaking barnyard filled with disease and/or parasite infested animals (this recently occurred in Chicago).
‘How the heck do you know if you have them? ‘
Do you have anyplace that itches? Like right now is the back of your head feeling funny, like something is crawling in your hair?
Well then you probably have them
Watch the show Verminators sometime. All kinds of real life examples of peoples homes infested with roaches, rats, bed bugs. Just thinking of the show makes me itch.
Me too - itching!
Ummm, no itchy places. I’m talking about PROACTIVE...not REACTION.
Verminators is like that episode but worse. Dirty nasty people thats for sure.
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