This is a public service announcement re: chikungunya virus.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... about.html
Don't get bitten by mosquitos
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D5CAV
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Don't get bitten by mosquitos
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Old Grafton
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Re: Don't get bitten by mosquitos
Good info.
But the Culture Wars were thrown in, too. It served no purpose to the article; there it is anyway.
But the Culture Wars were thrown in, too. It served no purpose to the article; there it is anyway.
I'm not old--It's too early to be this late.
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Aesop
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Re: Don't get bitten by mosquitos
Meh.
Worldwide shipping, global air travel.
"Don't get bitten by mosquitoes"??
Yeah, great advice from Slate, right up there with "Don't have an auto accident" and "Don't breathe (to avoid TB)".
Pity no one makes the connection to the rise of mosquito-vectored pestilence and says
"Bring back DDT!!!"
Let alone charging Rachel Carson and her ignorant twaddle with crimes against humanity, digging her up, removing her marker, and scattering her remains to the four winds, and according her deranged jeremiad the same level of respect accorded Mein Kampf.
To date she's only responsible for several times the death toll of the entire Nazi war machine, so fair is fair.
And tell Godwin to sit down and shut up in this case, because he's an over-quoted idiot too.
Worldwide shipping, global air travel.
"Don't get bitten by mosquitoes"??
Yeah, great advice from Slate, right up there with "Don't have an auto accident" and "Don't breathe (to avoid TB)".
Pity no one makes the connection to the rise of mosquito-vectored pestilence and says
"Bring back DDT!!!"
Let alone charging Rachel Carson and her ignorant twaddle with crimes against humanity, digging her up, removing her marker, and scattering her remains to the four winds, and according her deranged jeremiad the same level of respect accorded Mein Kampf.
To date she's only responsible for several times the death toll of the entire Nazi war machine, so fair is fair.
And tell Godwin to sit down and shut up in this case, because he's an over-quoted idiot too.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Netpackrat
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Re: Don't get bitten by mosquitos
This.Aesop wrote:Pity no one makes the connection to the rise of mosquito-vectored pestilence and says
"Bring back DDT!!!"
Cognosce teipsum et disce pati
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"People come and go in our lives, especially the online ones. Some leave a fond memory, and some a bad taste." -Aesop
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BDK
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Re: Don't get bitten by mosquitos
DDT did pose some issues - but we shouldn't have phased it out for disease control.
Insect born diseases can be horrific - sadly even the return yellow fever and malaria to NYC, probably, won't change their minds.
(It's a matter of when, not if, so long as those diseases are left to exist.)
Insect born diseases can be horrific - sadly even the return yellow fever and malaria to NYC, probably, won't change their minds.
(It's a matter of when, not if, so long as those diseases are left to exist.)