West Nile Virus – Aerial Spraying

As if insult was not bad enough when they started spraying for West Nile Virus infected mosquitoes.  Now Dallas County plans to move forward with aerial spraying of Dallas.  That’s definitely adding injury to insult! (Yes – I know it’s backwards – but it’s how it is)

WNV is reported to give the same symptoms as the flu or a “summer cold”  including fever.  There are 9 (so far) reported “confirmed deaths” from WNV in Dallas county.  In EACH of those cases – they have refused to give basic information about the deaths.  What was the victim’s age?  What other health issues did they have?

Well – What health issues are the “powers that be” going to spray onto us?  they DON’T KNOW.  They say “Bring your pets in, Stay Inside” and in the same sentence they proclaim that it’s “Safe”.  Huh? Do you really think that we believe this line of dialogue?

Even the EPA recommends using spot control to eliminate mosquito larvae at the “local levels”. (See document here: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/mosquitoes/mosquito.htm )

The EPA lists steps as:

• Surveilance
• Measures to Control Mosquitoes –
• The first method listed by the EPA is:Controlling mosquitoes at the larval stageLarvicides target larvae in the breeding habitat before they can mature into adult mosquitoes and disperse. Larvicides include:

  Bacterial Insecticides

  • Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis
  • Bacillus sphaericus

Folks,  please… Contact your local city representative and OPPOSE the blanket aerial spraying of YOUR city for West Nile Virus.  It is my position that the people that do unfortunately succumb to the symptoms of the WNV – *really* have other underlying health issues that make them susceptible to an additional stress upon their body.  We saw it with H1N1 (Swine Flu).  The people that died and were confirmed as having been tested positive for H1N1 – ALREADY HAD MAJOR MEDICAL ISSUES THAT THEY WERE DEALING WITH.    I have a close friend that had H1N1 at the time of his death.  He also suffered from stage 3 emphysema.  Who got the blame for the death, though?  Piggie Flu.

What can YOU do to help?

• Be an EDUCATED resident.  Ask pertinent questions (like: “WHAT is the chemical that will be sprayed?”, “What time of day will it be sprayed?”
• Research the active ingredient.  See what it’s history is for human contamination.  Does it cause birth defects or in ANY other way disable the human nervous system or body?
• Take action after you learn the answers.  Contact your city rep.  Contact your State Rep. – and voice your opinion.  I highly recommend that it be an opposition to blanket spraying of a city.  Also available are petitions that can be submitted to your city.  Here’s one:  http://www.change.org/petitions/dallas-stop-the-spray-combat-mosquitoes-the-intelligent-way

Folks – PLEASE – be an educated resident of your locale.  CARE for your family and neighbors.  Don’t let your city become a gas-chamber for a slow-release cancer than may not show up for years – or it may show up in the upcoming fetal generations.