HELP on the West Nile Virus - All FReepers and Rush Limbaugh

self | 020812 | xBob

[XBob]

I have a preventative for West Nile Virus, but repeated calls to the Center for Disease Control, the National Istitute of Health and the HHs are all in vain. I can find no one interested in the vast government burro-ocracies who is interested. Anyone got any ideas on how to get our stoooooooooooopid government to listen?

[XBob]

Mosquitoes won't bite me.

[Michael Barnes]

well...why not post it here?

[Ecliptic]

Stop worrying about the Government--just tell the world right now, in this forum, what the preventative is....IF it is real, then the whole world will start using it....IF you don't post it then we will know for sure it doesn't work....

[jae471]

Do mosquitoes not bite bite you, or are you just immune to the chemical they inject (and not realize they bite you)?

I'm mostly immune -- the bumps go away after about 5 minutes. Besides, most (almost all) people will NOT get ill from WNV.

[egarvue]

Why give it to the government - why not share it with everyone? Forget the goverment, call the media. Better yet, why don't you post it here?

[fatrat]

the only chance you have in getting a bureaucracy to listen is through your elected representatives.

[lsee]

Try the government agency at your LOCAL level first, then work your way up the food chain. If your solution is valid, your local people in "small government" have more time to listen than "big government". If you can get one LOCAL veterinarian interested in your solution, or one human doctor, your solution gains credibility.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Are you joking? Your lack of details tells me you could be.

Do you not get bit because you live in Transylvania?

[arthurus]

Either mosquitoes don't bite me or I don't feel them.There is no bump and no itch. Sometimes I see one walking about on my arm and I execute it. The only real annoyance is the buzz when I am drifting off to sleep. It always seems the thing is aimed at my eardrum.

[Dakmar]

Try calling a local television station and see if you can get their ear.

[Ides of March]

If you think the political appointees at CDC or NIH will have a clue, you're barking up the wrong tree. Go to a pharm. company or medical research hospital.

Beware.

[Captainpaintball]

Emailing Rush won't do anything. It will get lost in the shuffle of 10,000 other emails. This is a good place to look for help, though. THere must be someone on FR who knows someone that can be of assistance.

Please tell us the conversations you had with the government workers. Why did they not take you seriously? What were their responses to your claims?

A couple of Freepers have the answer: The government is INCOMPETENT!!! They don't WANT to solve the problem! leak it to the media. Post it here. Screw Washington. They have failed us.

[rmmcdaniell]

Yes, I've heard that several layers of tin-foil work nicely.

[discostu]

I know what it is: smoking. Smoking always helps keep the little biters away.

But really you should be taking your discovery to Raid or Black Flag or somebody who's into the whole bug market. The CDC isn't interested in bugs until after they've infected someone, since bug bites are on the low end as far as disease path they have bigger fish to fry.

[AdA$tra]

Skeeters do not bother me the way they used to. I think people do become somewhat immune to their "itch juice". I spent two summers in Northern Minnesota. They stopped itching about half-way through the second season. They do, as mentioned above, still make that irritating noise when trying to sleep in a tent. We have our first confirmed case of WNV here in Kansas. Thankfully there are very few mosquitoes around here this year.

[Grig]

I'm hoping mass panic will lead to the genocide fo all mosquitoes. :-)

[MD_Willington_1976]

Just tell the government that if we all die from WNV that there will be nobody left to pay taxes....they outta jump then.

[Blue Screen of Death]

I hear Martha Steward has some money to invest in medical research and development.

[spald]

"Smoking always helps keep the little biters away.

Whenever I hike with the grandkids in the forest, I take along a pack of those rat-tail Grenadiers from Antonio y Cleopatra. The smoke must be toxic to the bugs because they vacate as if the forest is on fire! It's then a bug-free stroll amongst the trees.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Brewers yeast. But it isn't fool proof.