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« on: October 03, 2012, 12:28:57 PM »

My transplant hospital sent me a CDC pamphlet today, warning that transplants patients are at greater risk from West Nile Virus.  They rarely send me anything in the mail except invoices and donation requests, so it's rare to get any info from them this way.

Main points to remember - Bug spray, bug spray, bug spray.  And it takes between 3 and 14 days after the bite to develop the symptoms - high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness, and paralysis.  Less severe cases lead to fever, headache and body aches, nausea, vomiting, and skin rashes on the chest, stomach and back.  There is no treatment.  Symptoms last several weeks, and neurological effects can be permanent.

Now, it's useful info, I suppose.  But I'm posting this in the Humor section because the timing of the mailing made me laugh. 

I live in Michigan.
It's already October.
It's less than 60 degrees out on the sunny days, never mind the rainy ones like today.
There are NO mosquitoes left alive around here!

So thanks for finally warning me, doc.  ::)
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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2012, 12:59:04 PM »

i live in florida, seems like info i should have gotten... they have been bad the last few weeks and they spray here too, in the complex i live in
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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2012, 11:02:53 PM »

I am just seeing this. Too funny!  :rofl;
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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 11:42:15 AM »

yeah, I'd say that the mosquitoes have died out anywhere where there's generally snow on the ground for 6 months of the year.. this is my second favorite time of the year, first of course being summer, when I can go to the beach.. *G*  It might be cold, but there's no snow, and there's no bugs
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