From winterety at sbcglobal.net  Sun Jul 24 13:29:12 2005
From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:29:12 -0700
Subject: [OldNorth] West Nile Virus
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ON Friends:
	
	Mosquitos in Old North have tested positive for West Nile Virus.
	
	This information is from a UCD graduate student conducting an 
epidemiological study of WNV, who took overnight samples in our front 
yard about two weeks ago.  She picked the corner of 6th and C Street 
because it is a secondary staging site for the large population of 
crows that overnights near Community Chambers.
	
	Please take care to avoid mosquito bites and, if you know of any, 
please try to control or eliminate outdoor standing pools of water.
	
	You can find more information on WNV at the Center for Disease Control 
web site:

		http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/prevention_info.htm

	Best to you,

		Bruce



From valerie at vanngroup.com  Sun Jul 24 14:57:28 2005
From: valerie at vanngroup.com (Valerie Vann)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:57:28 -0700
Subject: [OldNorth] West Nile Virus
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sheryl lynn gerety wrote:
> please try to control or eliminate outdoor standing pools of water.

The usual sources are 
birdbaths that aren't emptied regularly
(every 2 days at least) and 
other standing water garden pools,
including cavities in rocks,
children's outdoor toys that pick up water from sprinklers,
flowerpot trays, 
wheelbarrows, 
wading pools, particularly
those that have been "emptied" but still have shallow water
or sprinkler catch sitting in them,
plastic covered yard furniture that sits for more than
a few days and catches sprinkler water, 
pet dishes that aren't emptied often enough.

Also discarded stuff like tires, paint cans or other metal
containers, 
garbage and trash containers no longer used
that don't have drainage holes and/or lids, 
persistent puddles that get renewed from landscape runoff.
etc.

Check your alley folks, there's all sorts 
of stuff out there. 

Valerie Vann
valerie at vanngroup.com



From winterety at sbcglobal.net  Sun Jul 24 18:59:33 2005
From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:59:33 -0700
Subject: [OldNorth] West Nile Virus
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and also:  roof gutters full of sycamore leaves from the latest 
die-off, sycamore leaves in the street gutters accumulating sprinkler 
run-off (rake and sweep your gutters to eliminate this source), 
vehicles seldom used or abandoned (6th Street between D and E pick-up 
truck) that have accumulated moisture in the beds.

Sheryl

On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Valerie Vann wrote:

> sheryl lynn gerety wrote:
>> please try to control or eliminate outdoor standing pools of water.
>
> The usual sources are
> birdbaths that aren't emptied regularly
> (every 2 days at least) and
> other standing water garden pools,
> including cavities in rocks,
> children's outdoor toys that pick up water from sprinklers,
> flowerpot trays,
> wheelbarrows,
> wading pools, particularly
> those that have been "emptied" but still have shallow water
> or sprinkler catch sitting in them,
> plastic covered yard furniture that sits for more than
> a few days and catches sprinkler water,
> pet dishes that aren't emptied often enough.
>
> Also discarded stuff like tires, paint cans or other metal
> containers,
> garbage and trash containers no longer used
> that don't have drainage holes and/or lids,
> persistent puddles that get renewed from landscape runoff.
> etc.
>
> Check your alley folks, there's all sorts
> of stuff out there.
>
> Valerie Vann
> valerie at vanngroup.com
>
>
Sheryl