Damn those mossies!

Posted July 28, 2007 at 7:41 AM by RonTopofIt in News

So I’m reading that four northern counties will undergo aerial spraying for West Nile virus beginning Monday and I couldn’t help but wonder how this came about so quickly. Then I hop over to sacbee.com and check out an article about two new cases of West Nile being discovered this week.

From the Sac Bee article:

District officials were sharply criticized in 2005 when, during a West Nile epidemic, they began aerial spraying in Sacramento and Yolo counties with little public notice. As a result, the district initiated an intensive awareness campaign to publicize every facet of its mosquito control efforts.

From the News 10 article:

The decision follows Thursday’s announcement that two human cases of the virus have been detected in the county.

Now that’s an intense effort to publicize EVERY facet, huh?

6 Comments

RonTopofIt said

Seriously, folks.

The spraying will start Monday night and continue for three days if it’s not too windy. The spray is designed to be safe but experts recommend you do what you can to get away from it…

Right, right. And guns are designed not to kill people unless you are standing in front of one when it goes off.

“We don’t necessarily recommend that people close windows or turn off their air conditioners but avoid being in the spray,” says Brown.

Avoid being in the spray that is being dumped on us from the sky? With airplanes? That spray?

July 30th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

cooldmz said

i feel you, dawg

Vector control experts add they can only do so much, you need to use bug spray and get rid of standing water at home.

“i mean our hands are tied here, we can’t exactly dump bug spray from the sky or anything…”

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July 30th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

manny said