Trouble in Paradise

[Sasquatch Jim]

  Some damn tourist in his generosity has brought a gift to this island.  We already have a big population of aedes albopictus and a lesser amount of aedes egypti mosquitos and this tourist has brought dengue fever for them to spread.  In the last two weeks 23 confirmed cases have been contracted on this island, with more to come.  The Asian tiger mosquito,( aedes albopictus) is very prominent on this island even up here in the cold frozen north end.   Lately temps of on coming winter have made daytime temps about 80 and lower with night time temps in the high 60s.  This helps but it is not going to stop the problem.
 There is no immunization for dengue or for that matter any medicine that cures it.   You either have enough resistance or not.
  Thanks tourist.  If you visit here, bring deet, at least 30% stuff.  And don't come if you are sick.

[trippah]

Cold FROZEN north end of the island?????Really, post pics of your next snowman please.

We are having a town meeting on the oversupply of bambi's and deer ticks with lyme disease.

[unclepete]

There was a tablet we took daily to avoid getting the fever in Vietnam . Don't remember what chemical ; just called them Malaria tablets . If there was the slightest chance of of catching Malaria , I would find the medicine .
It is true that once infected , there is no cure . A friend's dad came back from WW2 with it and often suffered with fever and headaches .

[boatdetective]

Somehow, I find it very hard to empathize with the problems in Hawaii.

[Sasquatch Jim]

 Are the deer ticks attending your meeting?
 Hey, sometime it gets so cold here that I don't even turn on the fan.

[cloudbase]

There was a tablet we took daily to avoid getting the fever in Vietnam . Don't remember what chemical ; just called them Malaria tablets . If there was the slightest chance of of catching Malaria , I would find the medicine .
It is true that once infected , there is no cure . A friend's dad came back from WW2 with it and often suffered with fever and headaches .

Chloroquine phosphate. 

[Lannis]

Somehow, I find it very hard to empathize with the problems in Hawaii.

They've got some real ones, though.   The homeless issue on Oahu is starting to break out of the bounds they set for tourists, and is only going to get worse .....

Lannis

[lucydad]

Jim,

Dengue is nasty stuff.  Houston has had a few cases.  Sorry to hear this.  Mosquitoes eat me alive here, and today I got bit several times as usual.  I bet I average ten bites a week despite spray.

[56Pan]

Chloroquine phosphate.

And made your urine such a deep orange it made you think you were badly dehydrated. More than anyone needed to know there, I reckon.

[johnr]

Sorry to hear this Jim. We got Giardia in some of our waters the same way. Some thoughtless tourist dedicating in a stream!  Time was you could drink the water where you found it.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  The official count is now up to 33 confirmed cases of dengue fever, and there is a shortage of mosquito repellent on this island.

 According to the news this morning, health workers are going door to door looking for cases of dengue.

 Someone needs to invent an innoculation that makes human blood fatal to mosquitos when they bite.
 Maybe it would work for dog bites too.

[Tom]

Somehow, I find it very hard to empathize with the problems in Hawaii.

No sweat.  We don't care if anything bad happens in MA either.

[nunzio]

Malaria...
That's why the British drank Gin and Tonic.
The tonic had a small amount of quinine...add Gin and sugar.
I have Malaria ...
It would come back..the doctors said that there was nothing they could do...
This was 40 years ago maybe they can do something now.
I would have a relapse every spring for years and then they just went away.
I can't give blood since I been to about every nasty place they ask you about. 

[Shorty]

Too bad the mongooses don't eat 'skeeters...

[Tom]

Totally agree....

[Nic in Western NYS]

You read it on WG first..http://nyti.ms/1iW4xkh