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To: Bob

I’m not ignoring the illegal alien problem; I’m objecting to reaching and stretching to blame illegals for a problem in which they have played a minor part, if any at all. Blame them for the REAL stuff, like overloading our schools, welfare rolls, and emergency rooms. Blame environmentalists for the Dengue outbreak.


64 posted on 06/29/2010 8:49:15 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Finny
Transmission

WHO/TDR/Stammers

Dengue viruses are transmitted to humans through the bites of infective female Aedes mosquitoes. Mosquitoes generally acquire the virus while feeding on the blood of an infected person. After virus incubation for eight to 10 days, an infected mosquito is capable, during probing and blood feeding, of transmitting the virus for the rest of its life. Infected female mosquitoes may also transmit the virus to their offspring by transovarial (via the eggs) transmission, but the role of this in sustaining transmission of the virus to humans has not yet been defined.

Infected humans are the main carriers and multipliers of the virus, serving as a source of the virus for uninfected mosquitoes. The virus circulates in the blood of infected humans for two to seven days, at approximately the same time that they have a fever; Aedes mosquitoes may acquire the virus when they feed on an individual during this period. Some studies have shown that monkeys in some parts of the world play a similar role in transmission.

WHO webpage

66 posted on 06/29/2010 9:14:54 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Finny
I’m not ignoring the illegal alien problem;

Yes,you are. Every post that you've made on this thread has downplayed any possible illegal alien aspect of the Dengue fever problem.

I’m objecting to reaching and stretching to blame illegals for a problem in which they have played a minor part, if any at all.

Source, please.

67 posted on 06/29/2010 9:23:27 PM PDT by Bob
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