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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #555 on: August 28, 2008, 09:55:57 AM »
Quote from: parts on August 28, 2008, 09:55:01 AM
I have not had a banana today :'(

Shouldn't that be your bitch for today?
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #556 on: August 28, 2008, 10:14:00 AM »
I killed a bunch of Mosquito's today!   
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #557 on: August 28, 2008, 10:23:46 AM »
Quote from: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 10:14:00 AM
I killed a bunch of Mosquito's today!   

My hero!

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How did you kill them?
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #558 on: August 28, 2008, 11:37:08 AM »
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #559 on: August 28, 2008, 05:01:08 PM »

Our season has been ant and spider heavy and I've seen very few mosquitoes.
They don't really bite me, but I usually hear them and it drives me bonkers, but not this year.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #560 on: August 28, 2008, 05:29:19 PM »
Quote from: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 11:37:08 AM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P

Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus here, so we have to be careful.  I actually know two people who got very sick from it and some people have died.

Mosquitoes just love me, so I need to use repellent.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #561 on: August 28, 2008, 05:30:34 PM »
I went near the woods today to retrieve some slate for a little landscaping job.  I could hear the whine of the mosquito's before I even entered the woods and as soon as I got inside the tree line...... DING DING DING goes the dinner bell.  I grabbed the slate and broke the world record for the 100 yard dash before the blood loss reached critical levels!   :P
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #562 on: August 28, 2008, 05:32:09 PM »
Quote from: Callaway on August 28, 2008, 05:29:19 PM
Quote from: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 11:37:08 AM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P

Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus here, so we have to be careful.  I actually know two people who got very sick from it and some people have died.

Mosquitoes just love me, so I need to use repellent.

Here it's west nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis that are the big problems.  NY State requires an immunization of all children for EEE. 
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #563 on: August 28, 2008, 06:09:55 PM »
Quote from: Callaway on August 28, 2008, 05:29:19 PM
Quote from: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 11:37:08 AM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P

Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus here, so we have to be careful.  I actually know two people who got very sick from it and some people have died.

Mosquitoes just love me, so I need to use repellent.

Holy shit! I never knew Colorado was leading the nation.

I just googled and found this old news ...

"West Nile Virus Update

West Nile Virus Update–Nov. 3, 2003
By Guangye Hu

U.S.

During 2003, a total of 7,764 human cases of WNV infection has been reported from Colorado (2170), Nebraska (1,540), South Dakota (964), Texas (470), North Dakota (422), Wyoming (320), Montana (218), Pennsylvania (212), New Mexico (196), Iowa (141), Minnesota (137), Ohio (95), Kansas (85), Louisiana (84), Florida (78), Oklahoma (68), New York (67), Mississippi (56), Illinois (48), Maryland (45), Missouri (43), Georgia (36), Alabama (30), Indiana (30), New Jersey (26), North Carolina (23), Arkansas (21), Virginia (21), Tennessee (20), Massachusetts (17), Kentucky (14), Wisconsin (13), Delaware (13), Connecticut (12), Michigan (6), Rhode Island (5), Vermont (3), Arizona (3), District of Columbia (3), New Hampshire (2), California (2), Nevada (2), South Carolina (1), Utah (1), and West Virginia (1)."



This is from the CDC:

"West Nile Virus Update --- United States, January 1--August 19, 2008

This report summarizes 2008 West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance data reported to CDC through ArboNET as of 3 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, August 19, 2008. A total of 28 states have reported 236 cases of human WNV illness to CDC (Figure, Table). A total of 137 (58%) cases for which such data were available occurred in males; median age of patients was 48 years (range: 10 months--86 years). Dates of illness onset ranged from January 17 to August 14; two cases were fatal."



I'd say that reduction is really good news, but I do not know how to track any inconsistency in reporting habits. I fear that reporting the infections has fallen off faster than the number of cases across the population.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #564 on: August 28, 2008, 06:16:39 PM »
To be blunt, I look at those figures and those are pretty lite figures in comparison to the total populations of each state.   Plus, each case might have had something that made them more vulnerable to West Nile Virus.  Either very young or very old or immuno-compromised.  The only reason AMber recieved the vaccination was that NY state requires it for kids attending school/camp in THAT state.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #565 on: August 28, 2008, 06:44:31 PM »
Probably right. I really suspect whether the practice of reporting is done accurately.

I wonder if the official word from the CDC that there has not been a single human case of West Nile Virus in Indiana since summer '07 is BS, too. We have just been really lucky to not have a mosquito problem this year. It was bad last year, though, despite the state spraying every week.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #566 on: August 28, 2008, 06:54:22 PM »
Quote from: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 06:16:39 PM
To be blunt, I look at those figures and those are pretty lite figures in comparison to the total populations of each state.   Plus, each case might have had something that made them more vulnerable to West Nile Virus.  Either very young or very old or immuno-compromised.  The only reason AMber recieved the vaccination was that NY state requires it for kids attending school/camp in THAT state.

The two adults I know here who got very sick from it were both very healthy men before they got West Nile Virus and they both wound up in the hospital, one of them in the ICU.  They both spent a lot of time outdoors, which is how they got bitten.  It took both of them a very long time to get better.

I also know a child who got it when he was three.  Perfectly healthy before, but not so much now.  He had febrile seizures because of West Nile Virus and he still has issues from having had it.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #567 on: August 28, 2008, 07:01:08 PM »
Quote from: DirtDawg on August 28, 2008, 06:09:55 PM
Quote from: Callaway on August 28, 2008, 05:29:19 PM
Quote from: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 11:37:08 AM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P

Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus here, so we have to be careful.  I actually know two people who got very sick from it and some people have died.

Mosquitoes just love me, so I need to use repellent.

Holy shit! I never knew Colorado was leading the nation.

I just googled and found this old news ...

"West Nile Virus Update

West Nile Virus Update–Nov. 3, 2003
By Guangye Hu

U.S.

During 2003, a total of 7,764 human cases of WNV infection has been reported from Colorado (2170), Nebraska (1,540), South Dakota (964), Texas (470), North Dakota (422), Wyoming (320), Montana (218), Pennsylvania (212), New Mexico (196), Iowa (141), Minnesota (137), Ohio (95), Kansas (85), Louisiana (84), Florida (78), Oklahoma (68), New York (67), Mississippi (56), Illinois (48), Maryland (45), Missouri (43), Georgia (36), Alabama (30), Indiana (30), New Jersey (26), North Carolina (23), Arkansas (21), Virginia (21), Tennessee (20), Massachusetts (17), Kentucky (14), Wisconsin (13), Delaware (13), Connecticut (12), Michigan (6), Rhode Island (5), Vermont (3), Arizona (3), District of Columbia (3), New Hampshire (2), California (2), Nevada (2), South Carolina (1), Utah (1), and West Virginia (1)."



This is from the CDC:

"West Nile Virus Update --- United States, January 1--August 19, 2008

This report summarizes 2008 West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance data reported to CDC through ArboNET as of 3 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, August 19, 2008. A total of 28 states have reported 236 cases of human WNV illness to CDC (Figure, Table). A total of 137 (58%) cases for which such data were available occurred in males; median age of patients was 48 years (range: 10 months--86 years). Dates of illness onset ranged from January 17 to August 14; two cases were fatal."



I'd say that reduction is really good news, but I do not know how to track any inconsistency in reporting habits. I fear that reporting the infections has fallen off faster than the number of cases across the population.

I think that reporting is down and also probably many of the more susceptible birds who were hosts to West Nile Virus have died off by now.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #568 on: August 28, 2008, 08:26:36 PM »
My grandfather died of West Nile Virus but he was already fairly old and ill, and had just had a major personal loss. He lived in Nebraska.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #569 on: August 29, 2008, 04:05:51 PM »
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