HOUSTON (AP) — A health expert warns standing water from Harvey could create a boom in the mosquito population and the potential transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.
Joon Lee is a medical entomologist at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. He says Harvey’s floodwaters will wash away immature mosquito populations from their breeding grounds, but they can be quickly re-established in stagnant water. Lee says mosquito populations will likely explode within the next two weeks and will stay for at least a month or two.
Lee says that could be mean increased transmission of potentially life-threatening, mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis. Lee says outbreaks of Zika, dengue fever and Chikungunya are also possible, but those diseases must originate from a person already infected.
Between all the chemical’s in the water, the coming mosquito plague, and Donnie & Stiletto coming back, I’d choose the first two options as the far more tolerable. It’s bad enough that Mother Pence let Pencey out in his good play clothes.
Houston … We may have another problem -----
(from another thread) …
She’s increased 50 knots in 24 hrs … And forecast to be 140 mph Cat. 4 in 5 days .—
After that ? ? ??? …But the Gulf of Mexico is a possibility —
Meet Irma …Check her out …
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?cone#contents
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT1+shtml/312032.shtml?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=2
Harvey & Irma.
Sounds like a Jimmy Buffett song.
Buffett’s new album … “Harvey and Irma”
Playlist: