Chikungunya virus hits North Carolina, Tennessee, other U.S. states

southern United States, it’s that time of year again: Birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and thousands of baby mosquitoes are hatching in your weird uncle’s neglected swimming pool.

But this year there’s a new problem child: Aedes aegypti, otherwise known as the yellow fever mosquito. Typically brown with white markings, this mosquito is a highly aggressive biter, generally found in hot, humid areas like Mexico and Central America, and sometimes the American south. But this year, mosquito control managers were concerned to find a bunch of Aedes aegyptias as far west as southern California, and they’re multiplying quickly. The female of the species lays up to 200 eggs several times a season, just above the water line in containers of standing water.

Odd. It seems like an attack on the Southern U.S.

NO KNOWN CURE!!!

I had a coworker that got it while in Bangalore. He said it pretty much sucked for a couple of days but it went away.

Now if it mutates or something that is real doom!

some with an compromised imune system may have problems if this spreads

Mosquitoes That Transmit New Virus Found In Kansas

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Health officials say mosquitoes that can transmit a new mosquito-borne virus have been found in Kansas, though there haven't been confirmed cases of the virus among people.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports chikungunya is a new mosquito-borne virus that's spread quickly in the Caribbean since December.

There haven't been any confirmed cases of the virus in Kansas. But Charles Hunt, state epidemiologist, says two types of mosquitoes that can transmit the disease have been found in the state. Hunt says the disease isn't normally fatal, and symptoms can include fever, muscle and joint pain, rash and headaches



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Oh snap! I live in TN and was in the Carribean last week :)

Great. I am in North Carolina with a weakened immune system.

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and let's not forget that Bill Gates (a self-declared proponent of population reduction) has been working with mosquitoes to transmit "vaccines" to people who refuse them ... I highly suspect that this is just part of his "work" to fulfill the Elitist agenda to drastically reduce the population in the US (south)

I'm in willmington and yet to hear of this

Just got back from St. Martin... St. Maartin...

No one there was even "aware" of this disease. And St. Martin has a travel advisory against it.

And for the record... we bathed in DEET while in St. Martin.

Yes, odd indeed. I just wonder who could want to do this? Someone, or a group of people that have a disdain for the South, it's people and it's adherence to the Judeo-Christian beliefs?

the posters that keep hitting on the word "virus" are probably Medical Mafia shills, because to begin with there is no such thing as a "virus" (i willnot go into that again right now), and the thing that infects you is a fungus.

Notice how many times (for job security), just on this page alone, the Medical Mafia shills have used the word "virus" to erase any form of the word FUNGUS from your mind.

So now you all, just take your Candigone, shut down this thread, and your mouth, until you get some learnings into your compromised brains.- and the first and urgent one willbe Tinea Incognito.

I'm in Nevada with a weekend immune system, still only thursday. Do we have a problem?

I wonder what Revolution for large dogs would do for you and everyone around you. Revolution would be dangerous for anyone with "heartworms", so maybe one of the other brands would be best.

i always say "Revolution", because it hits everything, including earmites.

(selamectin) is the "active" ingredient in Revolution and what can kill you if you have heartworms.

No, it hasn't.

The nutcases that be are trying to convince you you're sick and stupid. Don't fall for it! And please pray for them. They're quite mad.

the mosquito bite seems to show the mosquito likes the front part of the ankle where the ankle joins the foot. I wonder if the mosquito lives in the grass. Does anyone know?

symptoms??

yes

Adage"
"Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see", you poor dear readers.

From a friend who works in Public Health:

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as of June 17, 2014 there are 80 confirmed cases of Chikungunya in thirteen states, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Fifty seven of those cases are in people who recently visited the Caribbean. Once a person becomes infected, there's an incubation period of three to seven days. The most common signs of the virus are fever and multiple joint pains. The virus is not usually fatal but extremely painful; it arose in Africa in the 1950s, the name “Chikungunya” comes from the Makonde language meaning 'bent out of shape” describing the contortion brought on by the pain of the virus.

I was in the Bahamas a few months ago after ccoming home I had a terrible fever and unreal joint pain. Even my hair hurt I was so sick I kept having hallucinations I suppose from the fever. They told me it was mono then Lyme then fibromyalgia. I bet I had chikungunya.

Sounds like it, though the Bahamas aren't really in the Caribbean. I guess mosquitos don't care.

According to [link to www.whitecoatwarrior.com] there is also a reported case in New York. I was reading a diff article and saw this. There is a lot of Mosquitos in ny in the summertime with the humidity and showers. Luckily they spray them downstate so pick your poison I guess

Yea I had it back in 2004. I passed out drunk in St thomas and sustained about a thousand mosquito bites. Got the shit. It sucked for a couple days but by no means is it anything to be afraid of. Fucking establishment scaring everyone over nothing.

All those pools and man made lakes from construction sites are breeding grounds for this crap!


DRAIN THE LAKE

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Florida scientists prepare to release hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes
Published time: December 06, 2012 21:21
Edited time: December 07, 2012 01:29

Hundreds of thousands of mutated mosquitoes could soon be unleashed in Florida, but don’t worry: scientists say they have a plan.

It might sound like something out of a low-budget horror film, but the US Food and Drug Administration really is considering whether or not they should allow scientists to send thousands upon thousands of genetically altered insects into the wild.

If all goes as planned, mosquitos modified by some serious Frankenstein treatment will be introduced into the Florida Keys and ideally mate with skeeters that carry the deadly dengue fever, passing along in the process a fatal birth defect that will hopefully eradicate the offspring before birth. From there, scientists say they expect the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the dangerous disease will be decimated in only a few generations without causing any major implications for the native ecosystem.

Heard on the radio this morning on the way to work that the NC case was from a person who just got back from the Caribbean. It was on Rush Radio 94.5 here in Greensboro.