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A new Beatrix Potter book being published after more then 100 years!

gjacobse

BBC Reports that the UK is beginning to warn pregnant women from traveling to the Americas, outside of Chile and Canada. Official travel warnings are by country, but the WHO has reported that all of the Americas are seeing outbreaks of Zika except for those two countries, thus far.

Zika is dangerous fever that has spread from Uganda and slowly made its was east since 1946. The movement was slow and infection rates were low until last year when it hit Brazil and it is suddenly an epidemic in the new world. The disease is bad enough for normal people, but in pregnant women it causes a high risk of severe birth defects.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35408327

I saw an article about Zika the other day and thought about your recent stay in Nicaragua and the fogging you dealt with.

scottalanmiller

Yup, those mosquito-bourne diseases are terrible. Although zika was not yet one that they were dealing with there.

I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

Yup, those mosquito-bourne diseases are terrible. Although zika was not yet one that they were dealing with there.

I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.

You mean like the gov't just coming to your house and pumping in toxic smoke?

I have a bird, that would have killed her!

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said:

I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.

As in texas has as less equipment than in central america?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yup, those mosquito-bourne diseases are terrible. Although zika was not yet one that they were dealing with there.

I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.

You mean like the gov't just coming to your house and pumping in toxic smoke?

I have a bird, that would have killed her!

They have birds there too, but you would move the bird when they do it.

But yes, Texas doesn't have the legal means of doing what needs to be done in a mosquito epidemic.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.

As in texas has as less equipment than in central america?

Equipment, access, safety or ability. Even if they had equipment, access and ability, it would be unsafe to approach homes in Texas as a health worker as Texas is very pro "shoot people on your property". The things that you need to do to keep everyone safe if that really happens, Texas just isn't legally or socially prepared to handle.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.

As in texas has as less equipment than in central america?

Equipment, access, safety or ability. Even if they had equipment, access and ability, it would be unsafe to approach homes in Texas as a health worker as Texas is very pro "shoot people on your property". The things that you need to do to keep everyone safe if that really happens, Texas just isn't legally or socially prepared to handle.

Ha.. texas the backwater of South America

Pun intended.

Because even in South America they don't shoot you for walking up to someones home.

scottalanmiller

Never been to Columbia then

Mostly they just have barbed wire around the homes instead.

dafyre

If I knowed that somebody was gonna come and kill off dem squiters, I'd be less likely to shoot'em.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said:

Never been to Columbia then

Mostly they just have barbed wire around the homes instead.

That's to keep the creepy crawlers out ain't it?

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.

As in texas has as less equipment than in central america?

Equipment, access, safety or ability. Even if they had equipment, access and ability, it would be unsafe to approach homes in Texas as a health worker as Texas is very pro "shoot people on your property". The things that you need to do to keep everyone safe if that really happens, Texas just isn't legally or socially prepared to handle.

Ha.. texas the backwater of South America

Pun intended.

Because even in South America they don't shoot you for walking up to someones home.