Mosquitos - which vitamin?
Jul 10th 2003, 3:59 pm
#31
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Joined: Jan 2003
Location: Calgary AB, Canada (Ex Leicester)
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Wot, me worry?
Originally posted by TimEh?
Bites in themselves are not dangerous but of course mossies can carry diseases. Not sure about Australia, but we are facing West Nile Fever here which is getting closer to our area every year.
Bites in themselves are not dangerous but of course mossies can carry diseases. Not sure about Australia, but we are facing West Nile Fever here which is getting closer to our area every year.
And to prove that the Nanny State is alive and well even in right-wing Alberta, Calgary's Medical Examiner is advising us to now cover up at dusk and dawn or not go out at all at that time but use DEET if we do go outside, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah.
Good grieve!
One bloody magpie 100 miles from here
Bitten by a mosquito type rare in the Calgary area
Chances of being bitten by this rare type is therefore miniscule
If bitten chances of contracting the disease are small
If contracted, the disease seriously effects only 1 in 100 people and kills only 1 in 1000 people.
So because of this we should all change our life-style? Sod it, I refuse to live my life like that.
