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To: Bonefish who wrote (957418)

8/18/2016 5:48:16 PM

From: Taro

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Surprise, surprise:

BREAKING NEWS

Miami Beach, a major tourist hub, has been hit with a cluster of Zika cases likely transmitted by mosquitoes, a health official says

Thursday, August 18, 2016 5:11 PM EDT

Health authorities are trying to decide whether to designate a section of the bustling tourist city as a zone of active Zika transmission, and whether to advise pregnant women to avoid the area.

The health official said Thursday that there are “a handful of cases” of likely local transmission that involve people who were in “close proximity to each other.” The official insisted on anonymity, saying that the cases and the location are not likely to be officially announced until late Thursday or early Friday.

Until now we were told, that the Zika was contained and under control within a very limited zone of downtown Miami, but...

/Taro

To: Bonefish who wrote (957418)	8/19/2016 11:19:48 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

'Bad' is a subjective term. Everything has its pluses and minuses. For the developed countries, DDT has enough serious side effects that it was outlawed. The biggest problem is that it persists in the environment for a very long time. When it does eventually degrade, DDE is the primary byproduct. And it persists in the environment for a long time also and affects a lot more things than DDT. Most of the other pesticides degrade a lot quicker and their byproducts aren't nearly as bad as DDE. Who ever said natural products aren't toxic? Certainly not I. Most pregnant women with Zika can't afford to travel.