Mosquitos

[Edwin]

We have lots of mosquitoes in our Okanogan Valley. When we lived in the city of Okanogan there were times of the year that we would get eaten alive by the mosquitoes! Then usually the cities of Okanogan and Omak would contract with the arial pesticide companies flying the bi-wing airplanes that did the crop dusting. They would fly up and down the river spraying the mosquitoes. We would all have fewer mosquitoes then, but we would have that stuff in the air to breath and in the water for pollution.

The years we lived in the Stehekin Valley with had varied experiences with the mosquitoes. The first couple of years we lived at the boat landing area during the winter. The winds there drove all the mosquitoes away, so very seldom would anyone get bitten by a misquito at the boat landing area. Out at the end of the lake there were a lot of swampy areas, and they bred mosquitos. When I gave my tours I told that people that was mosquito lane, and though that was a fictitious name, it really was mosquito lane with billions and billions of the little insects. There were times that some people could not even bare to walk in that area. The bakery was right at the end of that mosquito area, and they had everything well screened so that you could get away from the yellow jackets, wasps, hornets, biting flies, and the mosquitoes.

Where we lived in the summer during those first couple of years the mosquitoes were every bit that bad. If we let any of them in the house after 9 p.m. we could not sleep until amost morning for mosquitoes biting us. When you were working on a car motor the mosquitoes knew it and they would go on the attack.

The mosquitoes in our area as far as I know are not disease carriers. I can't remember hearing of anyone getting any kind of disease from misquitoes in our area either the Stehekin Valley or the Okanogan Valley. Some people in our area take garlic pills to repulse the misquitoes. The misquitoes would eat my dad alive, and they would never bit my mother, and they thought it was because she was a small part Indian, but I don't know if there is any truth to that or not. The misquitoes will eat my wife and some of our kids alive, but they hardly even bother me. I'm not very fond of the misquitoes anyway.

[red]

Neither am a fond of mosquitos. When we moved to our house here, man, big black mosquitos flying in our sorroundings. I let the banana trees cut and some of the trees even because mosquitos like to live in dark cool places. The other day I was able to kill a mosquito in our bathroom, it was a rare kind, it had white stripes and mint green color.. so I thought must be a dengue mosquito...good thing my eyes were alert..lol

[Edwin]

That is for sure! That mosquito trap sounds interesting. I have never heard of a mosquito trap , but if they get numerous I think I will build one of them!

[crisipicada]

That is for sure! That mosquito trap sounds interesting. I have never heard of a mosquito trap , but if they get numerous I think I will build one of them!

Usually mosquito bite in day time are the one causes dengue. DOH (Department of Health) of Region 10 announced that Region 10 is now dengue hot spot. Dengue cases triple this year compare last year.

[Edwin]

That is for sure! That mosquito trap sounds interesting. I have never heard of a mosquito trap , but if they get numerous I think I will build one of them!

Usually mosquito bite in day time are the one causes dengue. DOH (Department of Health) of Region 10 announced that Region 10 is now dengue hot spot. Dengue cases triple this year compare last year.

That is definately cause for concern, and also efforts to avoid bites and trap mosqitoes. It is something that they would cause no problems other than disturbances and itching in our area while in other areas of the world they cause diseases.

[crisipicada]

mosquito during day time are the one carrier of dengue flu. When i was in the hospital yesterday at Bethel as i really need to go there, sad to say that they dont accept dengue patients because the hospital is full. I am quite having fever lately because i got lots of mosquito bites.

[Edwin]

mosquito during day time are the one carrier of dengue flu. When i was in the hospital yesterday at Bethel as i really need to go there, sad to say that they dont accept dengue patients because the hospital is full. I am quite having fever lately because i got lots of mosquito bites.

My wife's brother who lives in Guiamaras Island has had a round of three cancer attacks in two years. First he had prostate cancer and had that taken care of. Then he had rectal cancer, and had that taken care of. Then he had another cancer that disappeared and it could be because we were all praying for him. Anyway he went to a hospital in Iloilo to get his bag removed and have him reconnected. They waited I can't remember how many hours. They told him that he would have to wait until midnight after they had already waited for hours, and he told them he was going home. They went to Manila, and he checked into a hospital there and they were able to take care of him.

I went to the emergency room at a hospital after riding the boat, as there were not roads there, and I had to wait what seemed to me to be forever. They told me that if I were in Seattle I would have to wait ten times that long, and I don't think I would have lived through it with what was happening to me.

I never even thought of mosquito bites causing such problems before.

I will pray for you.

[Jeeem]

Mosquitoes....

Ah...when I was living in North Central New Hampshire in the U.S., the mosquitoes were absolutely intolerable. You had to saturate yourself in bug juice before going outside or they would eat you alive. Thing was, there wasn't any mosquito-borne disease there.

Now I'm living in a tiny village, in a small cottage deep in the jungle of Southern Thailand, near the Malay border. About two years ago, my village and several other villages here in the south experienced an epidemic of Chikungunya virus, which although only temporary, has symptoms very similar to the Dengue fever virus, which is also spread my mosquitoes.

The symptoms of the disease are terrible! I woke up one morning feeling like I was about 100 years old. Every joint in my body ached, and the pain was almost unbearable. I went to the local clinic, and the place was packed with people who also had come down with the same illness. I'd never heard of it before, but was told about it by the doctor, who luckily for me spoke good English. He told me the symptoms would last normally two weeks, but for some people the symptoms would carry on for about a year or more.

I was one of the unlucky ones, as my main symptoms subsided in a couple weeks, but I continued to have periods of time lasting for two days up to a week, of continuing joint pain.

Initially, my symptoms included nausea and fever too, but that quickly disappeared. Now I am symptom free and cannot get the virus again because my body has built up antibodies against it. A very, very bad experience indeed!

According to local news, we do have occasional dengue fever outbreaks here, and the occasional case of Malaria, but I've taken the best precautions I can to prevent becoming infected with them, by dumping out any standing water (which is difficult in monsoon season!), wearing bug spray when I'm outside working in the garden, and I've purchased a mosquito net that has been treated with a mosquito repellent, which is the best so far. Plus, I finally talked the local physician into giving me some Malarial prophylaxis.

Malaria won't kill you if it's treated, but Dengue fever....especially the hemorrhagic kind, can be fatal.

-Jeeem-

[Edwin]

When we went to the Stehekin Valley where we used to live for 5 days, we went to mosquito land. The mosquitos are always bad there in the summer, and this summer they are far more numerous. They don't bother me much at all. They don't bite me much, and I don't react to them either. They thought the wet, cool spring with extra ground water for them to breed in made them numerous. And of course in our part of the country there are no health problems resulting from the bites. It was fun to be there where we lived and worked for 10 years, and lived in that double wide house we stayed in bringing old memories back. A lightening struck fire started on the hill above the house on our last night there. The flames and smoke were intense enough so that we put our bags in a wagon and headed for the landing with them. A kind lady let me load them in her vehicle, and we took them to the Landing. After eating a light supper there we went back out and stayed all night before getting on the boat and heading home. Because of living there for 10 years we get reports from the National Park Service sent to our e-mail. The fire has now burned close to 4000 acres and is threatening a number of homes, including the one we used to live in, but so far no structures have been lost.

[purex]

Comparative report on dengue cases calendar year September 2009 and September 2010 increases by 200% compare last year in the country, according to report. in fact the DOST predict that dengue cases will rise up to 80,000 cases up to the end of the year. Please take extra care because it is very deadly thing when you got dengue fever unless otherwise your body is strong enough to fight back virus and bacteria.