| Pages:
1
2 |
huesos
Nomad
Posts: 149
Registered: 6-24-2013
Member Is Offline
|
|
Dengue in Todos Santos
I get the impression that there is a real risk of contracting Dengue in The Todos Santos B.C. area. How prevalent is this stuff? It seems like every
place on my list to visit is now impacted.
|
|
|
bajabuddha
Banned
Posts: 4024
Registered: 4-12-2013
Location: Baja New Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Always cranky unless medicated
|
|
I have a friend just south of Sta. Rosalia got it a summer ago. Ya spends yer money, ya takes yer chances.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
|
|
|
Tioloco
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2651
Registered: 7-30-2014
Member Is Offline
|
|
Transmitted by mosquito?
|
|
|
bajabuddha
Banned
Posts: 4024
Registered: 4-12-2013
Location: Baja New Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Always cranky unless medicated
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by Tioloco
Transmitted by mosquito? |
yes
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
|
|
|
bajabuddha
Banned
Posts: 4024
Registered: 4-12-2013
Location: Baja New Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Always cranky unless medicated
|
|
From WIKIPEDIA:
Dengue fever (UK /ˈdɛŋɡeɪ/ or US /ˈdɛŋɡiː/), also known as breakbone fever, is a mosquito-borne
tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar
to measles. In a small proportion of cases the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in bleeding, low levels
of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs.
Dengue is transmitted by several species of mosquito within the genus Aedes, principally A. aegypti. The virus has five different types;[1] infection
with one type usually gives lifelong immunity to that type, but only short-term immunity to the others. Subsequent infection with a different type
increases the risk of severe complications. As there is no commercially available vaccine, prevention is sought by reducing the habitat and the number
of mosquitoes and limiting exposure to bites.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
|
|
|
Tioloco
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2651
Registered: 7-30-2014
Member Is Offline
|
|
Mosquito repellant and good to go, yes?
|
|
|
blackwolfmt
Senior Nomad
Posts: 802
Registered: 1-18-2014
Location: On The Beach With A Blackwolf
Member Is Offline
Mood: dreamin of Riden out a hurricane in Baja
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by huesos
I get the impression that there is a real risk of contracting Dengue in The Todos Santos B.C. area. How prevalent is this stuff? It seems like every
place on my list to visit is now impacted. |
Hola, huesos, I think I have seen your interest in this on other post's you made here is some info I found last year http://www.bajainsider.com/baja-life/health/denguefever.htm#.U-bV4aOK1k4
|
|
|
bajabuddha
Banned
Posts: 4024
Registered: 4-12-2013
Location: Baja New Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Always cranky unless medicated
|
|
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=73746#pid9069...
...Why do I smell fish?
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
|
|
|
huesos
Nomad
Posts: 149
Registered: 6-24-2013
Member Is Offline
|
|
Two different areas. I am looking for answers not accusations.
|
|
|
Alm
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2729
Registered: 5-10-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by Tioloco
Mosquito repellant and good to go, yes? |
Yes. Though, it won't be too "good" smelling it on yourself and on your clothes.
|
|
|
elgatoloco
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4332
Registered: 11-19-2002
Location: Yes
Member Is Offline
|
|
Crocodile. Roll on. It works for us, so far. I want to check out Ben's. My wife and I can be in the same bed and she will get bites and nada for me.
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
|
|
|
durrelllrobert
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7393
Registered: 11-22-2007
Location: Punta Banda BC
Member Is Offline
Mood: thriving in Baja
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by Tioloco
Mosquito repellant and good to go, yes? |
I've found that the brown colored Listerene is more effective then pricey repellents. Just put in spray bottle and cover all bare skin areas and they
won't land on you and it's a hell of lot cheaper.
Bob Durrell
|
|
|
tehag
Super Nomad
Posts: 1248
Registered: 1-8-2005
Member Is Offline
|
|
DEET works!
Certainty is the child of ignorance, knowledge is the mother of doubt. Question everything!
http://bcsbirds.com |
|
|
BajaBlanca
Select Nomad
Posts: 13196
Registered: 10-28-2008
Location: La Bocana, BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
Now pray tell robertdurrell -how did you discover that brown Listerine works as a mosquito repellant?
|
|
|
pacificobob
Super Nomad
Posts: 2306
Registered: 4-23-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by huesos
I get the impression that there is a real risk of contracting Dengue in The Todos Santos B.C. area. How prevalent is this stuff? It seems like every
place on my list to visit is now impacted. |
yes, todos santos is very dangerous. avoid it at all costs
|
|
|
bajabuddha
Banned
Posts: 4024
Registered: 4-12-2013
Location: Baja New Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Always cranky unless medicated
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by pacificobob
| Quote: | Originally posted by huesos
I get the impression that there is a real risk of contracting Dengue in The Todos Santos B.C. area. How prevalent is this stuff? It seems like every
place on my list to visit is now impacted. |
yes, todos santos is very dangerous. avoid it at all costs |
I concur. And Mulege.... and ESPECIALLY Sta. Rosalia.... very dangerous...
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
|
|
|
chuckie
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6082
Registered: 2-20-2012
Location: Kansas Prairies
Member Is Offline
Mood: Weary
|
|
The only really safe place in Mulege is at Carlos Racing bar...
|
|
|
monoloco
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6667
Registered: 7-13-2009
Location: Pescadero BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
I've spent around 20 years in the Todos Santos area and had dengue once. Does that mean that the odds of getting it are 1 in 7300 ? Avoid areas with a
lot of mosquitos and you'll be alright. Most people survive dengue with no long term effects so the chances of contracting the hemorrhagic form is
quite low. Contracting dengue would be pretty far down on my list of worries when traveling in Mexico.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
|
|
|
Katiejay99
Nomad
Posts: 429
Registered: 9-3-2008
Location: Todos Santos
Member Is Offline
Mood: it is what it is
|
|
I could have written what Monoloco wrote, except mine would be 16 years.
|
|
|
Bajahowodd
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9274
Registered: 12-15-2008
Location: Disneyland Adjacent and anywhere in Baja
Member Is Offline
|
|
Geez. We live in Disneyland-adjacent Orange County. My next door neighbor works for the OC Vector Control Agency. He regularly traps mosquitos on our
condo property. Earlier in the week he got over 100.
That said, the vast majority of mosquitos trapped by the agency test positive for West Nile Virus.
Simple precautions include making sure your screens do not have holes or gaps in them. Venturing out at night, do use repellant, and/or wear long
pants and long sleeved clothing.
One does not have to be in an exotic locale to be subject to whatever those nasty mosquitos are harboring.
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
