Zika “swat team” in Miami – 12 people to cover 2,000 square miles

Only a Dozen Inspectors Stand Between Zika and Miami Bloomberg

• With no federal funding the “swat team” is only able to clear the property of current mosquitoes of people who are currently suspected of having Zika infection.

• Primarily by removing locations of standing water and use of larvicide

• They rarely deal with possible mosquitoes in property of neighbors

• They appear to be unaware that the Zika mosquito does not lay eggs in standing water like most other mosquitoes.

• “Leave out the birth defects and Zika is mild compared with Dengue, which can kill, and Chikungunya, which causes victims to hunch over in pain”

• Note - Miami county has a ban on spraying mosquitos as doing so would upset the ecosystem.

  • This may be nullified by the state law

• Note: New mosquitos are hatched several times a month, but the “swat team” does not have funding for bi-weekly visits

• 1 "swat team" member per 200,000 population in county

  • Brazil has 1 person by 1,000 population in country (220,000 troups for population of 200 million)

• 200X fewer "boots on the ground" to fight the enemy in the US

• Eggs laid “. . in the well at the bottom of the leaves of a bromeliad . . “

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Zika is not “coming” to the United States: It is already here - May 2016

• Zika tests of asymptomatic pregnancies give poor results – so don’t test – May 2016

• Of US pregnant women who were tested for Zika, 279 were positive – how many are actually infected - May 2016

• A zika-like virus killed 10 percent of those in America’s capital, Philadelphia

• Zika pregnancies: 950 new this week in Columbia – May 2016

• Four antiviral strategies – includes vitamin D – Vasquez Dec 2014

• Zika control – genetic engineered mosquitoes being tried in a Florida area – June 2016

See also web

• Florida Zika Virus Cases Near 170 June 6, 2016