IF YOU BELIEVE THE BLACK DEATH DOES NOT EXIST, PLEASE DON'T GO CAMPING IN LAKE TAHOE, NAVADA...FIRST TWO CASE (978 hits)
S OF WEST NILE VIRUS HAD BEEN FOUND IN CA. IT HAS COME EARLY THIS YEAR BUT HAS BEEN IN CA. FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS NOW. IT COMES FROM A MISQUTOE BITE.ME. WHERE I LIVE I AMD ALMOST SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES BY RICE FIELDS MISQUTOES BREEDING GROUNDS AS THERE IS ALWAYS STANDING WATER. THEY DO HAVE MISQUTOE FISH THE CITY WILL GIVE HOME OWNERS FOR FREE TO PUT IN STANDING WATER. THE RICE IS NOW COMING UP AS IT WAS ABLE TO GET PUT IN ON TIME THIS YEAR...ABOUT TWO WEEKS AFTER THE PLANES DROP THE SEEDS IN THE PLANTS CAN BE SEEN GROWING. (SMILE)
It's been around longer than 10 years hasn't it? 15 or 20 years I think, I'll look it up. I met a man at the doctor's office a few years ago that gad it. He told me they were unable to cure him. For some reason the mosquitos leave me alone, I guess I'm not as tasty as I used to be.
Saturday, May 25th 2013 at 12:07PM
Steve Williams
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic arbovirus belonging to the genus Flavivirus in the family Flaviviridae. This flavivirus is found in temperate and tropical regions of the world. It was first identified in the West Nile subregion in the East African nation of Uganda in 1937. Prior to the mid-1990s, WNV disease occurred only sporadically and was considered a minor risk for humans, until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease. WNV has now spread globally, with the first case in the Western Hemisphere being identified in New York City in 1999;[1] over the next 5 years, the virus spread across the continental United States, north into Canada, and southward into the Caribbean Islands and Latin America. WNV also spread to Europe, beyond the Mediterranean Basin [a new strain of the virus was recently (2012) identified in Italy]. WNV is now considered to be an endemic pathogen in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and in the United States, which in 2012 has experienced one of its worst epidemics. In 2012, WNV killed 286 people in the United States, with the state of Texas being hard hit by this virus, making the year the deadliest on record for the United States.[2]
The first appearance of WNV in the Western Hemisphere was in 1999[1] with encephalitis reported in humans, dogs, cats, and horses, and the subsequent spread in the United States may be an important milestone in the evolving history of this virus. The American outbreak began in College Point, Queens in New York City and was later spread to the neighboring states of New Jersey and Connecticut. The virus is believed to have entered in an infected bird or mosquito, although there is no clear evidence.[65] West Nile virus is now endemic in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, west and central Asia, Oceania (subtype Kunjin), and most recently, North America and is spreading into Central and South America.
Saturday, May 25th 2013 at 12:57PM
Steve Williams
I wonder how long it will take to spread throughout South America?
Saturday, May 25th 2013 at 1:16PM
Steve Williams
WHAT MAKES THE WEST NILE VIRUS SO DEADLY IS IT SWELLS UP YOUR BRAIN. A LOT OF PEOPLE GET IT, BUT THEIR ARE FEW DEATHS. AND THERE IS A LOT OF NOT WANTING SPRAY PUT IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS...ME, I DON'T CARE ONE WAY OR HE OTHER, BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY MISQUTOES OUT HERE IT DOESN'T REALLY MATER IF THEY SPRAY OR NOT. (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
LAST YEAR IN YOSEMITY PARK THEY HAD AN OUT BREAK OF THE HAUNTA VIRUS, FROM DEER AND RAT DROPING IN CABINS BUILD BY THE NATIONAL PARK...THIS YEAR THEY NOW BUILD THE CABINS LIKE THEY WERE BUILD BACK IN THE 1800S WHEN THE PARK WAS OPENED AND WILL ALLOW MORE PRIVATE TENTS.(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
@STEVE THANKS LOADS FOR THE VITAL INFO...
YOU ARE CORRECT IN HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN HERE...THED INTREST IN IT SEEM TO HAVE BEGUN WHEN IT AFTER THE HORSES IT BECAME HUMANS BEING AFFECTED ENOUGH FOR FULL TIME RESEARCH / MEDIA. NOW WE ARE ASKED TO TURN IN OR REPORT ANY DEAD BIRDS AND IT SEEM IF YOU KILL THE MISQUTOE JUST AS IT BEGINS TO BITE YOU IT IS NOT GOING TO BE AS SERIOUS ITS BITE RESULTS. (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
THIS I SAW A FEWE DAYS AGO MAY BE ANOTHER INSECT DISASTR WE WILL BE FACING....
A LADY STILLUNDER A DOCTOR'S CARE FROM BEING ATTACKED BY HUNDREDS MAYBE THOUSANDS OF KILLER(?)MISQUTOES....
WHENHER AND HER BOYFRIEND'S BOAT GOT A LEAK THEY DECIDED TO WALK TO HELP. BUT WHEN ATTAKED BY A SWAM OF MISQUOES THEY TOOK COVER BACKIN THE WATER. LATER THEY WRE FORCED TO CALL 911 AND HER BOYFRIEND WARNED HER TO NOT TELL 911 THE TRUTH BECAUSE SHE WOULD BE SEEN A S A NUT AND HELP WOULD NEVER COME. PHOTO WAS SHOWN OF HER BITES AND THEY WERE INTENT AND UNBELIEVABLE.(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
