Zika Threat
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Not to be all doom-and-gloomy, but Zika is about to hit pretty much the entire (warm) world, wherever there are mosquitoes that can carry the virus. Infected travelers have already brought the disease back to the US, and that's only going to get worse this summer, between normal tourism and the fact that the Olympics are being held in Rio, an epicenter of the epidemic. Looks like OP is located in South Carolina, which is prime territory for the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
NASA and NCAR map Zika's potential spread in the U.S. - CNN.com
Y'all are going to have to move to northern Montana - better get packing
(In all sincerity, best of luck).
NASA and NCAR map Zika's potential spread in the U.S. - CNN.com
Y'all are going to have to move to northern Montana - better get packing
(In all sincerity, best of luck).
Kharon
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Zika is looking more and more dangerous. There have been cases of neurological problems in adults, including but not limited to Guillian Barre. My mom died from this disease over the course of a month and a half in intensive care. It was not pretty. In fact it was horrible.
Additionally a number of people have died from Zika complications - I don't think it would be wise to ignore the risk. I also firmly believe that proper precautions will most probably prevent infection. I'm headed to Bonaire for 2 weeks Nov/Dec 2016. I've got Dengue as well as Zika to worry about. Chikungunya (I think) has burned itself out there.
As Laene pointed out it's here there and everywhere and it's not limited to transmission by Aedes aegypti. At least one other species of mosquito can transmit as well - and it's range is all the way up the east coast. So unless you plan to move to the artic circle or to the antartic ...
As the climate warms the tropical "hot zone" will expand. In fact it now includes southern europe. There is a storm coming and it's going to be ugly. Between mosquito and tick borne diseases it's coming to a neighborhood near you. Environmentalists and PETA whackos are against using a genetic method to eliminate Dengue & Zika & yellow feaver & malaria mosquito species. The environmentalists argue that some birds will go hungry and the PETA people - well ... insects over people.
As for me, if someone can eliminate mosquitoes, ticks, black flies, deer flies, horse flies, moose flies, etc, etc, etc - go get 'em. Wipe them from the face of the earth.
One of the worst ideas god had was inventing these insects. The worst was inventing people for the bugs to eat. (NOTE: of course, this last was tongue in cheek).
Additionally a number of people have died from Zika complications - I don't think it would be wise to ignore the risk. I also firmly believe that proper precautions will most probably prevent infection. I'm headed to Bonaire for 2 weeks Nov/Dec 2016. I've got Dengue as well as Zika to worry about. Chikungunya (I think) has burned itself out there.
As Laene pointed out it's here there and everywhere and it's not limited to transmission by Aedes aegypti. At least one other species of mosquito can transmit as well - and it's range is all the way up the east coast. So unless you plan to move to the artic circle or to the antartic ...
As the climate warms the tropical "hot zone" will expand. In fact it now includes southern europe. There is a storm coming and it's going to be ugly. Between mosquito and tick borne diseases it's coming to a neighborhood near you. Environmentalists and PETA whackos are against using a genetic method to eliminate Dengue & Zika & yellow feaver & malaria mosquito species. The environmentalists argue that some birds will go hungry and the PETA people - well ... insects over people.
As for me, if someone can eliminate mosquitoes, ticks, black flies, deer flies, horse flies, moose flies, etc, etc, etc - go get 'em. Wipe them from the face of the earth.
One of the worst ideas god had was inventing these insects. The worst was inventing people for the bugs to eat. (NOTE: of course, this last was tongue in cheek).
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