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Dengue fever hits Miami-Dade County, reports the health department
Miami Herald ^
| July 15, 2010
| Fred Tasker and Cammy Clark
Posted on 07/15/2010 10:14:36 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The first suspected locally acquired case of dengue fever in Miami-Dade County was reported Thursday by county health officials. A viral disease that afflicts 100 million worldwide every year, it hadn't been seen in Florida since 1934.
"Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by a breed of mosquito common to the southeastern United States and the tropics," the Miami-Dade Health Department said in a news release. "It is not spread from person to person. More than 100 million cases of dengue occur every year worldwide.''
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: dengue; denguefever; disease; fever; illegalimmigration; miami; miamidade; quarantine; screening; signa; stern
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To: ConservativeStatement
Bush’s fault, just has to be Bush’s fault.
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:18:13 AM PDT
by
macquire
To: ConservativeStatement; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono

Are they touring with Anthrax?
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:19:45 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Its too bad there isn't an easily produced, highly effective, harmless insecticide that could be used to kill off all the mosquitoes.
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:20:42 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: ConservativeStatement
Psst, Rahm, here’s you a crisis!
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:21:46 AM PDT
by
bgill
(how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
To: ConservativeStatement
If only, if only, there was a way to kill these mosquitos. Hmm.....
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:23:56 AM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Love of God, Family and Country has made me an extremist.)
To: ConservativeStatement
The unusually cold winter we experienced bred a much larger spawn of various insects. We’ve had 3 flea infestations this season (1 is common), and the mosquitoes have been quite plentiful. Add the wetness we’ve had down here, it’s no wonder strange diseases are coming back.
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:25:08 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: avg_freeper
It may be spread by mosquitoes, but the mosquito has to first bite a human infected with Dengue.
I wonder where that person came from?.......
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:26:18 AM PDT
by
NeverForgetBataan
(To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
To: avg_freeper
I wonder what possibly could be used to kill those mosquitoes. Something seems to be tickling the back of my mind.
To: avg_freeper
Now that New York City has bed bugs at the Abercrombie store...on second thought, scratch that, literally and figuratively.
To: NeverForgetBataan
We are experiencing diversity of diseases too!
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:32:28 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: vpintheak
Coating the water with oil will prevent their multiplication.
Oh, wait. That’s taken care of. :)
To: ConservativeStatement
An article I wrote on the spate of worsening Dengue Fever outbreaks in Latin America. This plus the bedbug phenomena might get some loosening on restrictions on DDT, but not from the numbskulls in this government.
"Very Aggressive" Dengue Fever Outbreak in Mexico
To: ConservativeStatement
There are serious dengue outbreaks happening right now in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Anyone who gets off a plane in Miami from either one of those places is likely to be carrying it. Get friendly with your DEET, Floridians.
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:43:38 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: a fool in paradise
And in Arizona we’re called “raaaaasist” because we want to control our borders.
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:45:08 AM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Social Justice is the right to refuse to buy them the rope they want to hang you with.)
To: NeverForgetBataan
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:54:35 AM PDT
by
livius
To: avg_freeper
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posted on
07/15/2010 10:55:14 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(George W. Bush was the last conservative democrat)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
Why quarantine some people who cross the border if we are going to “look the other way” for 20 million more?
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posted on
07/15/2010 11:00:32 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
07/15/2010 11:02:08 AM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
And in Arizona were called raaaaasist because we want to control our borders.Mosquitoes don't obey the law.
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posted on
07/15/2010 11:47:36 AM PDT
by
Romulus
(The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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