AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says West Nile virus has been confirmed in a Pennsylvania resident who was visiting Maine.
State epidemiologist Dr. Stephen Sears says a federal lab on Tuesday confirmed West Nile in a Philadelphia woman who developed symptoms while visiting Maine earlier this month. He says the woman was treated at a Lincoln County hospital and has since recovered.
Sears says it’s believed that the woman contracted the virus before she arrived in Maine, so she’s being counted as a Pennsylvania case instead of a Maine case.
So far, there has been no documented case of someone contracting West Nile in Maine, but mosquitoes bearing the virus have been confirmed in the state.
This disease is much less of a threat than many others, but it’s touted by the chemical companies and their cohorts at UMO because spraying poisons all over the place- ostensibly to kill mosquitoes – makes them lots of money. Simple, but disgusting.
It is simply not possible to kill all mosquitoes in an area. Spraying always leaves some mosquitoes immune to the poisons, which means they cannot be killed with those chemicals.
Exposing people to poisons (all pesticides are poisons, of course – they’re intended to kill living things) is unconscionable. Especially when there are clean methods of avoiding mosquitoes and other unwanted insects, plants, and animals.
Pesticides used against mosquitoes also kill honey bees, which we need to pollinate our food crops, and which are dying right and left. The UMO and other universities’ professors who take money for “consulting” fees from chemical companies are not our friends; they’re prostituting themselves for grants from the poison manufacturers.
Don’t be fooled by public cries of “spray!” There is no such thing as a pesticide that kills only mosquitoes. And, depending on how much we get exposed to the poisons, they will harm us, too, even in rather small doses.
The Portland newspaper has made a big deal out of West Nile Virus, so people down there are calling to have themselves sprayed. Some spraying has already been done.
There has yet to be even one case of WNV which originated in Maine – and it’s usually like a cold or some people have no reactions whatsoever, excepting, for example, people with AIDs and the like who might suffer more severe symptoms – if there are any cases at all.
Good to remember that there are many diseases we’re exposed to all the time. WNV is among the least of them for those of us with reasonably healthy immune systems.
Remember, too, that people with weak immune systems can die from the common cold. Just keep yourself healthy by eating good, clean food and drinking clean water (not from plastic bottles) and you’ll likely be disease-free for a long, long time.