I got one of these for the babies. It comes with bug screens, and it has worked pretty well this year.
Mosquito traps (CO2 generators) may not work -- depends on the mosquitoes.
CO2 genertators
West Nile Virus - living in fear?
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I got one of these for the babies. It comes with bug screens, and it has worked pretty well this year.
Mosquito traps (CO2 generators) may not work -- depends on the mosquitoes.
CO2 genertators
Some perspective: Estimated population of Canada as of about 11 am today: 32,579,600 Source: http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/clock/population.htmMMike said:
Odds of getting West Nile 236/32,579,600 or 1/138,000 or so. Pretty small odds.
Odds of getting struck by lightning (live or die). Roughly 1/400,000 in the US. Source: http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm
So you are roughly 3 times more likely to get West Nile than struck by lightning.
But when you compare it the odds of dying a car crash you see a drastic change in the odds.
Odds of dying in a car crash: 1/6,345 (per year) Source: http://www.iii.org/media/facts/statsbyissue/oddsofdying/?table_sort_735950=3
That is you are 66x more likely to die in a car crash than get hit by lightning and 23x more likely to die in a car crash than get West Nile.
Of course these are all just odds. They really don't mean much in terms of absolute numbers. You can skew the odds in your favor by taking precautions. And as you can see, its much more critical to wear a seat belt and follow the posted speed limit than it is to wear DEET. I'm guessing that if you always wear your seat belt you may shift the odds of dying in a car crash by an order or two of magnitude (10-100 times less likely)
Back to the original topic, letting your kid outside in a potentially infested area would shift the odds against you. So instead of 1/100,000 it might be 1/10,000 (still very small odds). If you are really concerned about West Nile, using any kind of deterrent regardless of its relative effectiveness must shift the odds back in your favor somewhat.
Better than the odds of you cracking a funny jokeDa Peach said:
ATOMICFIREBALL said:
5. Can I get HIV from mosquitoes?
Mosquitoes or other sucking and biting insects do not transmit HIV. For a mosquito to infect someone, it would have to bite a person who was infected. Then, it would have to either immediately travel to someone else and infect that person from tiny drops of infected blood left on the sucker, or it would have to process the virus in its saliva and inject it into the next person. Mosquitoes do not do either of these things.
They do not travel from person to person. They do not carry enough blood on their suckers to infect anyone else they bite. And, they do not process the virus in their saliva. Once inside a mosquito, the virus lives for only a short time. Thus, the saliva mosquitoes inject into people cannot have HIV. If HIV were spread via animals and insects, there would be a high infection rate in people of all ages.
http://www.mnaidsproject.org/learn/faq.htm
I hope you're not living in fear of getting AIDS from a mosquito.ATOMICFIREBALL said:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B0DEED61E3EF932A35754C0A961948260
http://www.co.okaloosa.fl.us/pub_mosq_dis.html
I have unofficially had WNV...it sucked. It was like the Flu pretty much. Good thing about it though, I can never catch it again. Plus I have skeeter-like super powers.
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Thats good news of not getting HIV from mosquitos.I didn't know that....
Prevent: Use Watkins (28.5% DEET) - the only logger-approved bug reppelent. They will fly by, but wont bite you.
In case you get bitten, you can use Absorbine (sp?) to kill the WNV right away.
No, that's not what the doctors will tell you, but it does work very well.
If that's not enough for you, get a chainsaw and hold the gaz 'till they're no life remaining within 50 feet of you. Pretty effective when doing trailwork early in spring.
In case you get bitten, you can use Absorbine (sp?) to kill the WNV right away.
No, that's not what the doctors will tell you, but it does work very well.
If that's not enough for you, get a chainsaw and hold the gaz 'till they're no life remaining within 50 feet of you. Pretty effective when doing trailwork early in spring.
Is there any evidence that this works?HypNoTic said:
SkaredShtles said:Is there any evidence that this works?
Absorbine (aka tolnaftate) is an antifungal. Kills athlete's foot and crotch rot but I doubt it kills any virii.
Of course there is.SkaredShtles said:Is there any evidence that this works?
Some mosquitos carry West Nile.
He's been bitten by mosquitos, and used Absorbine on the bites.
He does not have West Nile.
QED.
Not sure if this helps our Canookian friend here but here are the current US states with infections. Might be of some use to some of us.
CDC said:Data table:
As of July 11, 2006 avian, animal or mosquito WNV infections have been reported to CDC ArboNET from the following states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Human cases have been reported in California, Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Texas.
source: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/Mapsactivity/surv&control06Maps.htm
This rock I have here keeps tigers away....binary visions said:Of course there is.
Some mosquitos carry West Nile.
He's been bitten by mosquitos, and used Absorbine on the bites.
He does not have West Nile.
QED.
Well then I have *ample* evidence that beer kills WNV.binary visions said:Of course there is.
Some mosquitos carry West Nile.
He's been bitten by mosquitos, and used Absorbine on the bites.
He does not have West Nile.
QED.
According to my experience, beer kills a vast majority of diseases that the rest of the world seems to consider dangerous or even fatal.SkaredShtles said:Well then I have *ample* evidence that beer kills WNV.
I'm wondering how long until people catch on. I wonder if I could patent a medical beer?
Too late,binary visions said:I'm wondering how long until people catch on. I wonder if I could patent a medical beer?
I knew a guy who was a pretty bad (raging) alcoholic. He got into a pretty bad accident. (walked out in front of a car while drunk). While he was in the hospital he was prescribed beer. It even came with a little prescription label. He was in bad enough shape that they didn't want him to go through the DT's. Or so the story goes. I never did quite believe him.