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Cities across US make rare move to spray chemicals through streets in response to onslaught of deadly mosquito-borne infections
Daily Mail ^ | 8/27/24 | Ellyn Lapointe

Posted on 08/30/2024 4:03:02 PM PDT by Libloather

Cities America are spraying chemicals through their streets in response to a rise in several deadly mosquito-borne illnesses, in an unprecedented move.

Massachusetts, New York, Texas and California are among the states deploying pesticides to repel the increasingly disease-ridden insects.

The decision comes on the heels of an onslaught of mosquito-borne illnesses throughout the US, including West Nile Virus, which hospitalized White House Covid doctor Anthony Fauci this month, 'Triple E', a brain-swelling disease that has killed two Americans so far this year, and 'sloth fever', a disease transmitted from sloths to mosquitos.

Officials are spraying the streets at night when people are less likely to be outside to reduce residents' exposure to the chemicals, which can be harmful to breathe in or ingest. The doses will also be 'ultra-low volume'.

Other areas have taken equally drastic measures, including imposing curfews to limit people's exposure to mosquito bites.

A number of Americans have died from mosquito-borne illnesses this year, including a New Hampshire man who died from EEE earlier this month. It was the state's first human case in 10 years.

In Massachusetts, towns in southern Worcester County and Plymouth County have taken an aggressive approach to fighting mosquito-borne illness this month after an 80 year old man from Worcester County caught EEE - the state's first human case since 2020.

EEE is a rare but serious virus that spreads to humans via infected mosquito bites. It causes swelling in the brain, and roughly 30 percent of infected people do not survive.

To curb the spread of this virus, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health will spray the pesticide Anvil 10+10 from trucks and planes overnight, starting shortly after dusk and ending in the early morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anvil; anvil1010; bcw; chemicals; curfews; ddt; deadly; eee; infections; insecticide; insects; marxistdespotism; mosquitoes; skeeters; spraying; triplee; westnile
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To: Libloather

Back in 1956 we used to run behind the DDT spray truck to get the cool spray all over us. Still kicking today at 77 years of age.


41 posted on 08/30/2024 4:48:48 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Libloather

While we have some mosquitos the real problem here is TICKS! Lots of ticks. I picked 12 off of me yesterday and was never in the bushes!


42 posted on 08/30/2024 4:50:41 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Rio

Good stuff! I think I’m due for another dose. :)


43 posted on 08/30/2024 4:51:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (His son nicknamed him Pedo Pete. (mic drop))
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To: Pollard

Gates’ skeeters?

Yep


44 posted on 08/30/2024 4:51:45 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: TigersEye

In SE Asia in 1969 I used DDT bug killer as a mosquito repellent. Still going strong today!


45 posted on 08/30/2024 4:53:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Rio

We used chlordane till it was banned. It really worked!


46 posted on 08/30/2024 4:55:34 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Libloather

Is Mr. Fauci adding his own secret ingredients to the spray?


47 posted on 08/30/2024 4:59:24 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: TigersEye

Yeah...the foggers we ran behind in the 60s were odorless. In the ‘70s, I lived in Oregon, and skeeters were not a problem in my area. The C-130s sprayed from probably about 300 feet up. But for the smell, I don’t think anyone would have known that they were spraying. Skeeters were pretty bad, at times, in S. Florida. One year some little monsters were blown in from Haiti. You’d lean against a jet and leave a combination of sweat and bug spray on the paint, and a half dozen of them would land on it and try to bite.


48 posted on 08/30/2024 5:00:07 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My grandfather built a cabin in the ‘30s that we all used. Had a problem with carpenter ants in the framing around the fireplace. Granddad used puffer bottles of pure DDT to fight them. Killed them all for a few months then they’d slowly come back.

In the ‘80s I saw the writing on the wall and confiscated both bottles for myself before one of my liberal cousins could decide they needed to be eliminated. Stashed in a big coffee can on a garage shelf. :)

They’re all in their 70s and I will be next year. We all survived vacationing in that cabin from babyhood until now.


49 posted on 08/30/2024 5:00:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (His son nicknamed him Pedo Pete. (mic drop))
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To: Libloather

My city does this every summer. They also treated the river right outside of town.


50 posted on 08/30/2024 5:05:32 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: ansel12

In Chicago in the 50’s, we were all scooted inside at the first sign of the fog trucks. It was always on a glorious evening when we would have much preferred to stay outside.


51 posted on 08/30/2024 5:34:45 PM PDT by mairdie (Trump (I Wil Win) - Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)
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To: Libloather

My city has no qualms about spraying when needed. This portion of Michigan was once a huge swamp. There are mosquito breeding swamps and wetlands everywhere. My great-grandfather died from Michigan malaria.


52 posted on 08/30/2024 5:37:19 PM PDT by madison10
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To: realcleanguy

Yup, that works great. I don’t trust the government to “spray down the state” with unknown chemicals

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Hell no!


53 posted on 08/30/2024 5:38:14 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Mark17

I also remember that smell in Nam, brother.

And the Mama-Sahn’s burning the latrine waste mixed with diesel.


54 posted on 08/30/2024 5:43:57 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata
I also remember that smell in Nam, brother.

I was near Saigon. I don’t know about other areas, but there, they used C-123s to drop it, whether it was mosquito spray or agent orange. The smell was the same.

55 posted on 08/30/2024 6:03:49 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: TigersEye

Yep, that DDT spray through every road in the city. We children would run behind it. It was fun. It must have caused us to die. I sort of doubt it. I’m in my 90s and haven’t seen a doctor in going on 4 yrs. They really should take another look at DDT.


56 posted on 08/30/2024 6:05:35 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: ansel12

I was just remembering that We did that also- in Spring Branch, early 1970’s (NW Houston near Hwy 290. Zip Code 77080.)


57 posted on 08/30/2024 6:11:15 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Libloather

do they make any for derelicts and bums???


58 posted on 08/30/2024 6:30:46 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Libloather

God, NO!

I went camping back in the Eighties or Nineties with a bunch of buddies, and it was around the time Skin So Soft was being touted all over the place as a mosquito repellent, so, since all of us disliked the smell and feel of Off (and other types) we thought we would try it.

We had the plastic bottles of it, and even the wipes.

Bloody hell. It frikking poured rain torrentially all weekend. We got up there late, all of us leaving after work on Friday evening, encountering car trouble and traffic, and we were driving on twisting dirt road around some damn lake following the instructions given to to us by some guy who gave us permission to camp there.

Well, we couldn’t find it.

So, we ended up finding an appropriate looking place, set up our tents in the pouring rain, and climbed inside to pass out. I woke up in my tent the next morning to the sound of “beep...beep...beep...beep” and heavy machinery Diesel engine sounds. When I poked my head out, there were backhoes and bull dozers, and guys with hard hats on.

We had set up our tents smack dab in the middle of a construction site!

But the mosquitoes were out in droves that weekend, so we got up, found the area we had permission to camp in, set up our tents and began partying. Good thing we had our Skin So Soft.

Except it didn’t work. At all. We got completely eaten. When we cooked our meals, the food all tasted like Skin So Soft, and the worst part was, we smelled like French whores!

To this day, the smell of that stuff totally nauseates me!

Heh, the place was Sebago Lake up in Maine, and to this day, decades later, all of us still call it “Se-bug-o Lake”...and we all despise Skin So Soft!


59 posted on 08/30/2024 7:25:06 PM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: DesertRhino

Yes. Thanks for posting this. DDT was one of the Leftist moves that resulted in the death of millions of people, and sickness of millions more, the loss of American Elm Trees due to Dutch Elm Disease, and a host of other issues.

There was nothing wrong with DDT, it didn’t harm humans and animals, and the only thing that caused problems was the massive overuse of it, resulting in various insects developing a resistance to it.

DDT should be legal. But no, we have to go through this BS.


60 posted on 08/30/2024 7:28:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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