Posted on 08/19/2024 10:28:13 AM PDT by CFW
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — The Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center in DeKalb County confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that some services at the hospital have been temporarily moved to other facilities, or rescheduled, due to multiple “intermittent sightings of flying insects.”
While a VA spokeswoman said they are taking immediate action to address the issue, they said it “is not classified as an infestation.”
According to the Ehrlich Pest Control website, the signs of a fly infestation are “regular sightings of flies: large number of flies buzzing around refuse areas and the base of garbage bins or other waste containers” and advise to “check anywhere that water pools including in guttering, rainwater barrels, tires or old machinery,” including potentially waterlogged potted plants.
Still, the presence of “two to three insects per day” in what the VA called “limited sightings” has resulted in the VA closing its operating rooms and putting procedures on diversion as “a precautionary measure to ensure the highest standards of safety and care for our Veterans and staff.”
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Flying insects in the ORs? When did Georgia become a part of Florida? Next thing you know, there’ll be palmetto bugs.
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Myiasis is one helluva’ post surgical complication...just saying...
Flies should never get into an operating room unless they come in on someone’s back. All operating rooms (properly designed operating rooms) are designed with positive pressure in the OR, so that if you open a door or opening to that OR, the air current is out of the room. I don’t doubt that a fly is capable of flying upwind, but they don’t usually do it in a straight line.
No matter, not a good look.
Those illegal aliens being treated at the VA hospital are not exactly clean ...
UFO flyby sightings?
Dust the area down with DDT, and it might work. If not, ZykonB was an effective pesticide in the US before the supply dried up in the early 1940s.
Or maybe empty the garbage can and clean out any rodent infestations?
Wanna bet this isn’t really about flying bugs...
Trust but verify.
I'm sorry to all the vets out there who still use it, and the VA did assist me with a couple of medical issues fairly well, but the overall quality is subpar.
This is where my BIL goes for treatment. 😣
The VA is gradually being prepared to shift to Immigrant care and veterans be damned.
I think the VA needs something similar, only it needs to say "We forgot those who served" with the American flag upside down.
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