Posted on 06/29/2010 9:31:18 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that for the first time in more than 65 years, dengue fever has returned the continental United States, The New York Times is reporting this week:
The upsurge is not unexpected. Experts say more than half the world's population will be at risk by 2085 because of greater urbanization, global travel and climate change. Over the past 30 years, a global outcry against using the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, has led to the resurgence of the mosquito, a voracious consumer of human blood and carrier of infectious disease.
Epidemics have become routine in Latin America, a continent on the verge of becoming highly endemic. Outbreaks are today raging in Brazil, Guatemala and other nations. Thailand, within a week of its annual dengue season this year, has already reported 18,000 cases and 20 deaths, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
In our Fall 2009 cover story, OnEarth looked at how climate change will force the U.S. to revamp its health-care defenses against diseases like dengue. Reporting from a Mexican town across the border from Brownsville, Texas, author Kim Larsen wrote:
Dengue is endemic in Matamoros; in 2004 a blood-sampling survey found dengue antibodies in 78 percent of the city's residents, which means all who tested positive had been infected with the virus at some point in their lives, though it may have gone undiagnosed. According to José Luís Robles López, the medical services coordinator for the city, dengue's grip has only tightened in the years since. It used to surge from August through October, in the wake of the summer rains, with cases leveling off throughout the rest of the year. But more and more, Robles López says, dengue is diagnosed steadily all year round.
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The fact is these insects (kissing bug) have been here for years. We are in the San Jacinto Mountains about 100 miles North of the border in Riverside County. About three years ago we had a swarm of these that lasted all summer. I was bit on the throat and it swelled to the size of a grapefruit. I was tested for Chagas and was negative; my neighbor, not so lucky. I have about 12 of these guys in a jar with no sign of life.
Yep. Between the outlawing of effective pesticides like DDT and the un-outlawing of unscreened, infected illegal immigrants who have contagious diseases, U.S. docs are in for some busy times.
Yes, it’s not that the insects are new, but they are biting illegals and are now carrying chagas where they didn’t use to in these parts, of course, chagas is coming in through tainted blood and such, but yes, the bugs are not new, just who they are biting is new ..
And I suppose that the mosquitoes are biting only citizens in order to become Dengue-carrying mosquitoes.
If mosquitoes bite someone without Dengue, they're annoying but not terribly significant when they later bite you. If mosquitoes bite illegals who have Dengue (Look at the map.), the results are far different.
Sory ..its Bush’s fault
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Illegal immigrants have nothing to do with it, and neither does climate change. Not even George Bush has anything to do with it!
In my opinion, the outlawing of DDT has everything to do with it.
To be carrying it, just where do you think that the mosquito picks it up in the first place? Mosquitoes don't create the Denque; they can only pick it up from someone who's infected. While most of those folks with it are south of the border, many of them are crossing the border illegally without any health screening.
Q. Where can outbreaks of dengue occur?
A.Outbreaks of dengue occur primarily in areas where Ae. aegypti (sometimes also Ae. albopictus) mosquitoes live. This includes most tropical urban areas of the world. Dengue viruses may be introduced into areas by travelers who become infected while visiting other areas of the tropics where dengue commonly exists.
http://www.cdc.gov/dengue/fAQFacts/index.html
I'm not familliar with the life-cycle of the disease. Where do the mosquitoes get it?
Bingo!
Count on FReepers to cut through the mierda del toro in the first 10 posts, getting to the real crux of the issue, and you guys did it in posts 3 and 4.
>Gee, it couldnt possibly have anything to do with the millions of illegals coming into this country.<
Bingo!
>Gee, it couldnt possibly have anything to do with the millions of illegals coming into this country.<
Bingo!
I don't know, but post #49 has info that's helpful.
I know it isn't contagious because I had it once, and it's nasty; had a temperature of over 104 at one point. I lost about 10 pounds in a little more than a week. I got it in Pago Pago, American Samoa, 1975. Just to be sure, I did an internet search to see if the doc who treated me and told me it wasn't contagious was correct. He was.
Source, please?
If so, the presence of infected people could spread the disease to mosquito populations which spread the disease to more people and so on. In something like that, the presence of non indigenous people who are infected (not subjected to health screening at the border due to illegal entry, for instance) could well cause the spread of the disease to mosquito populations which previously did not have the pathogen.
Parts of the area I live in are notorious for mosquitoes, and therein lies my interest.
Ask and ye shall receive:
How is dengue contracted?(emphasis mine)The virus is contracted from the bite of a striped Aedes aegypti mosquito that has previously bitten an infected person.
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Outlawing of DDT is what has brought an increase in Dengue, IN ANY CASE, regardless of how the mosquitos get it. But this thread is a prime example of the FReeper version of "It's Bush's Fault." No matter what it is, it's Illegal Aliens' Fault.
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