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2020-07-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
One more thing for New Yorkers to worry about ... NYC Health Department issues a warning after mosquitoes infected with West Nile Virus are detected in the city
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • New York City has detected its first cases of West Nile Virus this year after infected Culex mosquitoes were discovered on Staten Island and in the Bronx

  • The Health Department said it has already conducted larviciding from a helicopter over marsh areas in Staten Island, Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn

  • The plan is to apply larvidcide in catch basins, marshlands and other areas with standing water so they can kill larvae before the mosquitoes can bite

  • West Nile virus is a neuroinvasive disease that can cause mild or moderate febrile illness but 80 percent of cases as asymptomatic

  • People 50 years or older tend to be most at risk, as well as those with a weakened immune system
    ...just like everything else, it seems...
  • Remove standing water and wear mosquito repellent to avoid infection

  • The virus was first detected in NYC 21 years ago

  • Out of the 353 people who have contracted the virus 46 (13%) have died
    Terrifying. Why that’s slightly more than two per year. Let’s start panicking now.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 Sure they weren't Murder Hornets (TM)?
Posted by Mercutio 2020-07-15 05:59||   2020-07-15 05:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Cuomo will soon announce his plan to gather all West Nile virus infected mosquitoes and push them into assisted living facilities.
Posted by Airandee 2020-07-15 16:44||   2020-07-15 16:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Next up, for August: crocodiles in the sewers!
Posted by Dave D. 2020-07-15 23:15||   2020-07-15 23:15|| Front Page Top

#4 You mean we don't have a vaccine yet?

What's the CDC doing?
Posted by Bobby 2020-07-15 23:24||   2020-07-15 23:24|| Front Page Top

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