Please take proper precautions.
Well, Obamas safe.
Total cases statewide climb to 215There seems to be an increase in viruses/bacteria going on across the country. In LA, it's West Nile, in Vermont, encephalytis, in Yosemite, it's hantavirus....The death toll from the virus so far this year stands at 10.
Louisiana's health department says the state is experiencing its highest number of West Nile cases in years.
Then there's the flesh-eating bacteria.
Anecdotally, in the past, I've had the usual reactions to mosquito bites, but the other day, the back of my hand became inflamed and swollen for half the day after a mosquito bite from the night before. And this has happened a few times now after getting bit (not every time, just periodically).
Cancel the ban on DDT!!!
Folks are dead and afflicted from EEE up North and 134 have died this season in the US from West Nile Virus and many more have suffered for weeks in hospitals, with 40% of WNV cases being here in Texas. .....Consider the (probably) tens of thousands in Africa and other countries who have died because of the ban on DDT and the proliferation of mosquitoes.
As a kid in the late 1940s, I would run with the other kids on my block behind the trucks that drove through the neighborhood fogging the whole area with DDT to kill mosquitoes. NONE of us ever became ill and almost every yard had large fruit and vegetable gardens (former Victory gardens ala WWII) and the DDT had no adverse effect on the food.
Sorry for being so wordy....
Ugh, dreadful. RIP.
I don’t know if you can build immunity to mozzie bites, but if that’s true, the thousands of bites I received from the little buggers since I was a child immunized me. There’s actually a strain of encephalitis named after the city where I grew up: La Crosse (Wi) Encephalitis. I don’t think the residents are real fond of that.
Georgia woman battling flesh-eating bacteria
A Georgia mother of two is in intensive care, battling flesh-eating bacteria. Desiree Alford thought she had a bad cold or the flu, but she soon learned it was much more serious, MyFoxAtlanta reported.
Alford's parents that say in addition to the flu-like symptoms, she had one small red spot that quickly grew. By the time they rushed her to the hospital, doctors had to do emergency surgery.
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The Bagleys say they have no idea where she could have gotten the bacteria. She's a stay-at-home mother of two whose world revolves around 4-year-old Jermaine and 6-year-old Ashlynn.
Doctors have already removed two baseball-sized lumps of flesh and muscle.