Comments on: Second Human West Nile Case Confirmed In Escambia County

By: Wondering where Wondering's BRAIN is!!!

Wondering where Wondering's BRAIN is!!! — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:32:40 +0000

Re: “you people are freaking out JUST over West Nile Virus”

YES, I freak out about west Nile …..my husband almost died from it around 10 years ago, he was in a comma for 2 weeks! Yes the eastern equine is scary too but I believe as a member of escambia county it is our rights as tax payers to be informed of the locations of the confirmed cases. Maybe some people would think oh it’s 20 miles away so I don’t have to worry but the majority of people DO NOT think like that! I for one take mosquitos EXTREMELY serious. You watch your family member go through what my husband has gone through and to still have it effect his everyday life…..may God bless you and your family, I pray you don’t have to learn first hand about us people who are freaking out!!!

By: Grandmaof7

Grandmaof7 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:03:50 +0000

Jc, the symptoms are the same as the flu to begin with. fever, aches, headache and congestion. Depending on the bodys ability to fight it off, the person can develop pneumonia and encephilitis. There is no cure for it. I ran a fever of 103º for 3 1/2 months. I was treated with different antibiotics and given antiviral drugs, but just had to wait until it ran it’s course. Some people with it are not as lucky as I was.

By: Jc

Jc — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:09:58 +0000

What are the symptoms?

By: belvedere

belvedere — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:18:34 +0000

I think some of you are looking at too small of a picture, wanting to know where these cases are located. Take a look at these maps –

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/Mapsactivity/surv&control12MapsAnybyCounty.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/Mapsincidence/surv&control12IncidbyCounty.htm

At time of posting the data doesn’t include the Escambia County cases, but regionally there’s some activity around here.

By: waslo

waslo — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:26:20 +0000

Back when they used “real fog” in those trucks it killed a lot of non-target insects such as honey bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects. The first thing I did when I heard about the wnv being here is go give my property a good looking over for things holding water. I was surprised how many flower pot drip trays had wiggleys in them. I also had some old tires with them. I also warned my neighbors.

By: honeyboo

honeyboo — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:45:39 +0000

Help the county out and build a bat box. Bats eat approx 1000 skeeters an hour. Very simple to make. Its pretty neat to watch the evening bats . I have a retention pond in my back yard so the bats are in heaven with the free feeding .

By: Ifish4

Ifish4 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:56:38 +0000

Without giving a general area of the county where this was found, this report is a total and complete waste of time and money. As for the tips, they are general tips that apply year round in this area. If the health department won’t tell the general area where these cases are, then there is no need to know if there is 2 cases or 20 cases of West Nile virus in the county.

By: wondering

wondering — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:43:53 +0000

Why do you people care where it happened? Mosquitoes carry tons of viruses. You people are freaking out just over West Nile Virus. People also became I’ll with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, which actually carries a mortality rate around 35% on healthy adults and there is no cure. So it doesn’t matter where these two cases occurred. You should be caution of all mosquitoes. Let me guess, if you find out it’s not in your neighborhood then are you going to stop taking precautions? It doesn’t matter if it happened in your neighborhood or 20 miles away, take precautions anyway and you don’t have to worry.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:05:11 +0000

I know in Molino the mosquitos are horrible I live on hwy 196 and it doesn’t matter what time of day it is, you walk outside and you are attacked. The county REALLY needs to give this area a double dose of spray. I have a niece and grandbaby that are here most days and they can’t play outside, they tried to get in the sprinkler two weeks ago they played all of two minutes and my nieces back was attacked she had 10 bites on it.

By: Native 1950

Native 1950 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:45:49 +0000

Even IF they ride around in their truck ’spraying’ for mosquitos, they’re not allowed to put out enough spray anymore to even be effective. Just a waste of gas. Back in the day when the ‘fog trucks’ came around every summer, you KNEW it! That was when they literally fogged up the whole street as they went by. Now it just looks like they have a little exhaust coming from the top of their truck.