New Zealand nurses wear flea collars to ward off blood-suckers

NewsCore ^ | December 19, 2010

[george76]

A FLEA problem in hospitals in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, is forcing some nurses to wear flea collars to ward off the blood-suckers...

The fleas were believed to be brought in by patients who have pets at home and come from their clothes or blankets.

[CrazyIvan]

Not good. I remember an article about Hippies in the Haight
Ashburry district wearing flea collars. Several of them were
sickened by the insecticide which with the absence of fur
was absorbed directly into the skin.

[Martel1971]

DDT might do the job.

[allmost]

Hold her down and tell her to ‘embrace the muzzie’. That will make her family happy /s

[VeniVidiVici]

They have a lawyer problem in NZ too?

[17th Miss Regt]

flea collars to ward off the blood-suckers...

In America the IRS would just ignore the collars and go directly for the wallet or purse.

[Global2010]

Well if they are going to wear insecticide flea colors.
Why not use the 3month liqued anti flea application to the head?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Dogs get seizures from flea collars. No reason that people won’t too.

[aruanan]

Dogs get seizures from flea collars. No reason that people won’t too.

Except that people aren't dogs and, for per collar, are usually anywhere from 2 to 10 times heavier than a dog.

[JoeProBono]

[sanjoaquinvalley]

Between flea collars and fleas, I’ll take the fleas.Those collars can do damage to the nervous system.

[bunkerhill7]

New Zealand nurses wear flea collars to ward off blood-sucking phlebotomists

[roamer_1]

Sheep dip.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Flee Collars should be worn on the ankles to stop flees from coming up the legs—not around the neck.

[this_ol_patriot]

Garlic, eat lots and lots of garlic, I do and never get bit by mosquitoes or hornets, it might work with fleas too, only side effect is I get a lot of wiseguys hanging around my front stoop in the summer.

[Vaduz]

How many lawyers they have in New Zealand anyway?.

[pops88]

I’m and RN and lived in and around Auckland for almost 7 years. Their health care system nearly resulted in my death and horrified my Kiwi doctor. I’ve seen the inside of Auckland’s main hospital multiple times. It was disgusting. Middlemore Hospital had a reputation of being a dirty, ancient, disgusting hell hole. I found it hard to believe there could be a worse hospital than Auckland’s main one. At least I know what to look forward to under Obamacare.

[library user]

Have you ever seen the inside of a dentist's office in England?

It's a trick question. There are no dentist offices in England. :)

[hal ogen]

When I first read the headline my thought was “Gee...do they have DIM/LIB asshats there?”

[Right Wing Assault]

an article about Hippies in the Haight Ashburry district wearing flea collars

They must have been fake hippies. The real ones would never be so violent as to kill a flea.

Mrs. RWA and I picked up a load of fleas while visiting relatives who had several cats. Those ankle and lower leg bites they gave us were super itchy.