The last half of August 2024 may eventually be known as the time when Karma came to America.
We have long chronicled how Dr. Anthony Fauci, former top U.S. infectious disease expert and chief of the US response to COVID-19, botched the pandemic response and tried to obfuscate the potential links to the novel coronavirus outbreak to a lab in Wuhan, China.
Now it turns out that Fauci has contracted a case of another infectious disease, West Nile Virus. Though he is recovering, it was a severe enough illness that he was hospitalized for almost a week.
Fauci, 83, was hospitalized before he returned home where he is now recovering, the spokesperson says.The nation’s former top infectious-disease official is expected to make a full recovery from the virus, which is most commonly spread through the bite of an infected mosquito, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fauci was in hospital for six days.The virus first entered the U.S. in 1999, and it has become the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the country, per the CDC.
Infections with West Nile Virus can be severe, and approximately 100 Americans each year die after contracting the disease.
About 1,000 Americans are hospitalized each year with the most severe form of West Nile virus, which is spread through the bite of infected mosquitoes. Another 1,500, on average, are diagnosed after developing symptoms, although experts estimate that as many of 80% of infections in the US are never identified.There is no vaccine or specific treatment for West Nile. Most cases are mild, causing flu-like symptoms and a rash.In about 1 in 150 cases, the virus invades the brain and nervous system, which can lead to brain swelling, brain damage or death. About 100 people die from West Nile infections in the US each year.
Perhaps Fauci’s time would have been better spent directing US monies and resources to fighting mosquitos and focusing on vaccines and treatments for arboviruses (diseases spread by insects).
In fact, we may still be suffering from Fauci’s poor priorities. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) confirmed recently that it detected the first human case of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in Worcester County since 2020.
As a result, 4 Massachusetts towns are on lockdown.
Four Massachusetts towns — Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster — have enacted a voluntary evening lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of a potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease.On Wednesday, the Oxford Board of Health voted to support the recommendation for people to remain indoors after 6:00 p.m., effective immediately, through Sept. 30, according to a public health advisory shared with Fox News Digital.Starting on Oct. 1, the recommendation is to remain indoors after 5:00 p.m. until the first hard frost.The period from dusk through dawn is considered “peak mosquito hours,” the notice stated.The advisory designates the four communities as “critical-risk.”
During his recovery, Fauci will ponder the mistakes made in his policy priorities. Hopefully, Common Sense will follow closely on Karma’s heels and return to officials in charge of this nation’s health policies.
Perhaps it is time to rethink the use of DDT.
The decline in house spraying created DDT-resistant mosquitoes. Nevertheless, whenever DDT was vigorously used — as in Mexico — malaria rates declined despite the increased resistance of mosquitoes. Recent research has shown why. It has been found that DDT is “highly effective at repelling mosquitoes that are resistant to it”.Thus DDT not only kills mosquitoes not resistant to it but also repels mosquitoes which are resistant. “If the house wall is sprayed with DDT, the mosquitoes will stop entering,” says Donald Roberts, professor emeritus of tropical diseases at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. “If they don’t enter, they can’t touch people while they sleep. In terms of disease control, it works beautifully.”
While I wish Fauci a speedy recovery because that is the kind thing to do, I will not forget what he and his band of power-mad experts partnering with a compliant press did to this country during the pandemic.
If they had made better choices, perhaps Fauci and this nation would be healthier.
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