West Nile Spreading Faster Than Expected

AP ^ | 07-30-02 | My Favorite Headache

[My Favorite Headache]

It just add's to your summer fun...is there anything we should not be looking out for these days? Sheesh

[My Favorite Headache]

[My Favorite Headache]

[backhoe]

Time to bring back DDT...

[bimbo]

Wow! 18 deaths since 1999 …. 6 deaths per year! It seems this West Nile “problem” has a very active lobby, soliciting $$$ for their pet virus. I’ve been listening to the local news for 2 years, and hear about dead crows every day, but never about an infected person.

[Gorzaloon]

(sarcasm tag)

Though not often a tinfoil hat-wearer, I was convinced when it first appeared in New York that is was a deliberate introduction from some Third-World festering pesthole.

This can not be admitted or publicized because the Volvo-driving Berkley/Cambridge axis does not approve of the only correct response to CBW:

Total thermonuclear annihilation of the Usual Suspects.(/sarcasm)

[SLB]

Time to read about the truth on DDT. Rachael Carson probably started more rumors and hysteria than the taliban.

DDT

[dennisw]

Time to fire up me colloidal silver generator.

[Artist]

Yep, AVON repellants are deet free....and expensive and they don't work!

[Balding_Eagle]

"To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT... In little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million human deaths, due to malaria, that otherwise would have been inevitable."

[National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Research in the Life Sciences of the Committee on Science and Public Policy. 1970. The Life Sciences; Recent Progress and Application to Human Affairs; The World of Biological Research; Requirements for the Future.]

[backhoe]

According to what I have read, between one and two million people die every year from insect-bourne diseases that could be stopped by using DDT.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Horse owners

I live in OK, and have horses. Two very respected Equine Vets that I have talked to say that the makers of the vaccine are deliberatly making this out to be worse then it is (at least as far in horses) to sell the vaccine. So far I have held off giving it to my horses on their advise, because it is expensive, and I have also been hearing there is no guarantee it is effective, and they are now saying booster shots will have to be given more frequently then 1 time a year, and no one is certain that the side effects of the vaccine may be worse then the virus. I have a horse that I bought 4 months ago that had been given the vaccine and he has suddenly shown up with anhidrosis, (he doesn't sweat in hot conditions and cannot cool himself off). Very few in this area have even heard of this condition. I don't know if it was caused by the vaccine, but I did wonder:)

Any one else out there with horses hearing any of this?

Becky

[backhoe]

colloidal silver

Humm... you must be on some of the mailing lists I am on...

[dtel]

We live in east Texas and vaccinated our horses.
We have experienced no side affects to this point. (2 months since vac.)
I tend to think it is much ado about nothing.
I will keep an ear open for more info, keep in touch.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I tend to think it is much ado about nothing.

Much ado about side effects of the vaccine, or much ado about WNV:)?

Becky

[dtel]

WNV

We have heard of no side affects from the vaccine...yet.
There is a country vet I want to talk to, I'll let you know what he thinks.
Do ya'll have cows also?

[SLB]

There has been one horse reported to have died here in Kentucky. I don't know if I would vaccinate. One horse in all the horse farms around here is not too many. there are that many or more struck by lightning every year.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

No cows.

Becky

[blam]

"West Nile can cause a potentially fatal brain inflammation. Anyone suffering such symptoms as a high fever, severe headache, confusion or difficulty thinking, stiff neck or severe muscle weakness should see a doctor right away. It has struck Americans as young as 16, but those most at risk are over 50."

At least I don't have the fever and headaches yet.(LOL)

Birds (82 as of four days ago) have tested positive around here, Mobile. My dog, Tutt, has been acting sickly for about two weeks now. Can dogs get it?

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Thank you for the response. Sounds like it might be a big to do about nothing, where horses are concerned. Just like the yearly coggins tests are not going to eradicate EIA, and alot of horses that test positive are being destroyed when the chances of them spreading it are nil.

Who to trust:)?

Becky