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Mosquito tests positive for West Nile
I'm psuedo afraid to go outside. I was about to jog right now, but I'm sure if losing an ounce of weight is worth my mortal life. I am probably just paranoid but I don't trust the outdoors right now.
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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:42 PM, ross_r said:
It's too hot, wait until October to go out.
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Tetsujin 28-go said:
On a sideways related note, I really dig the Los Angeles Combodian Pop/Psych Rock "Dengue Fever." I saw them perform the the French Legation museum back in SXSW 2010. It was a fantastic show.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Phillip said:
Dengue! Yikes, dude...that's pretty rough.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Jesse24 said:
Not worried I have have Dengue in the past, I take care of myself before going out though and spray myself with straight DEET and make sure nothing like that happens again.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Tetsujin 28-go said:
I hear you, but according to the CDC, 80% of West Nile Virus infections cause no symptoms and less than 1% of cases are severe.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/Dvbid/westnile/WNV_factsheet.htm
Those numbers may be cold comfort, but more Americans die from the flu than from West Nile. Again, from the CDC, "it is estimated that, on average, approximately 5% to 20% of U.S. residents get the flu, and more than 200,000 people are hospitalized for flu-related complications each year. Over a period of 30 years, between 1976 and 2006, estimates of flu-associated deaths in the United States range from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people."
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/disease.htm#deaths
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Phillip said:
Even though I live in AZ, that shit's got me worried. I got bit by a mosquito last week and didn't sleep that whole night!