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Zika virus found in Miami Beach mosquitoes
NY Post ^
| September 1, 2016
| Post Staff Report
Posted on 09/01/2016 9:34:17 AM PDT by oh8eleven
The Zika virus has been detected in mosquitoes in Florida for the first time, officials said Thursday.
Mosquitoes from Miami Beach have tested positive for the virus after they were trapped in the area because of an outbreak in the area, WAVY-TV reported.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flu; miami; zika
Gonna' have a huge impact on tourism - and not just in Miami.
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posted on
09/01/2016 9:34:17 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
To: oh8eleven
DDT!.......................
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posted on
09/01/2016 9:37:05 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: Red Badger
Yes indeed! Spray heavy with DDT and tell the UN and all others who object to "GET STUMP BROKE!"
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posted on
09/01/2016 9:42:00 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: oh8eleven
In three years, I think we will find that Zika is messing up your brain on a long-term basis on top of these threats to pregnant women today. At that point, we will find smart kids who know the recipe to DDT, and buy the stuff to spray ourselves in various communities. I think Zika will be a bigger threat than HIV in the end.
To: oh8eleven
Mosquitoes from Miami Beach have tested positive for the virus after they were trapped in the area because of an outbreak in the area What a strangely constructed sentence.
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posted on
09/01/2016 9:56:51 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
To: SandRat
Delousing the troops w/ DDT ...
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posted on
09/01/2016 10:56:17 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: pepsionice
I think Zika will be a bigger threat than HIV in the end.
I don't think HIV ever was a threat except to the GLBT crowd and intravenous drug users.
But I agree, Zika may harbor more side effects that we won't discover until it's too late.
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posted on
09/01/2016 11:00:35 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: RegulatorCountry
What a strangely constructed sentence.I saw that and I think an editor made a change but forgot to do some house cleaning.
Mosquitoes from Miami Beach have tested positive for the virus after they were trapped in the area because of an outbreak in the area.
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posted on
09/01/2016 11:03:57 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: RegulatorCountry
That’s what they teach in Journalism 101 these days.
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posted on
09/01/2016 11:17:59 AM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: oh8eleven
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3464442/posts
“A team of researchers from Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health has found existing drug compounds that can both stop Zika from replicating in the body and from damaging the crucial fetal brain cells that lead to birth defects in newborns.
One of the drugs is already on the market as a treatment for tapeworm... One of the identified compounds is the basis for a drug called Nicolsamide, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved drug that showed no danger to pregnant women in animal studies. It is commonly used to treat tapeworm.”
Nicolsamide = Dog tape worm medication
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posted on
09/01/2016 11:23:44 AM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: bgill
Good news, but probably only if you catch the disease early on.
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posted on
09/01/2016 11:40:30 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
We’re heading to Daytona Beach week after next. I ain’t skeer’d but wifey is a little nervous.
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posted on
09/01/2016 11:47:38 AM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
To: oh8eleven
Anybody have any ideas how a Zika mosquito came to the US? For example, I go to a country that has the Zika’s and I get bit, get the virus, and then come back to the US. A mosquito (not infected) then bites me, does that mosquito get the virus from me? If so, then same thing can happen with any infected person coming from a Zika country? This could be scary for the entire country.
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posted on
09/01/2016 12:10:29 PM PDT
by
GTM01
To: GTM01
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posted on
09/01/2016 12:30:53 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: GTM01
Way back when I was being educated on HIV/AIDS the instructor told us [the class] that one could not get HIV/AIDS from being bitten by a mosquito that had bitten an individual infected with the AIDS virus. Nut now they say one can get the Zika virus by bitten by a mosquito.
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posted on
09/01/2016 12:33:50 PM PDT
by
sport
To: showme_the_Glory
Lots o’luck. I think Off w/Deet is recommended.
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posted on
09/01/2016 12:35:41 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
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