| Current Poll |
Are you keeping your New Year's resolutions?
View Results
|
|
Story Archives: West Nile here to stay
- 2013 - 320 articles
- 2012 - 1160 articles
- 2011 - 1177 articles
- 2010 - 810 articles
- 2009 - 779 articles
- 2008 - 949 articles
- December 2008 - 88 articles
- November 2008 - 73 articles
- October 2008 - 71 articles
- September 2008 - 91 articles
- September 30th, 2008 (Tuesday) - 18 articles
- September 24th, 2008 (Wednesday) - 14 articles
- September 23rd, 2008 (Tuesday) - 6 articles
- September 20th, 2008 (Saturday) - 1 articles
- September 16th, 2008 (Tuesday) - 17 articles
- September 10th, 2008 (Wednesday) - 3 articles
- September 9th, 2008 (Tuesday) - 13 articles
- September 5th, 2008 (Friday) - 2 articles
- September 4th, 2008 (Thursday) - 7 articles
- September 2nd, 2008 (Tuesday) - 10 articles
- August 2008 - 98 articles
- July 2008 - 98 articles
- June 2008 - 60 articles
- May 2008 - 66 articles
- April 2008 - 108 articles
- March 2008 - 70 articles
- February 2008 - 48 articles
- January 2008 - 78 articles
|
West Nile here to stay
Self-protection is the best method when it comes to mosquito borne illnesses, according to Don Riser, director of the Franklin Parish Health Unit.
"It has been assumed that West Nile is here to say," Riser said in response to questions about local testing for the illness.
"When Katrina wiped out the laboratory down in New Orleans, it wasn't replaced and testing stopped," he said.
In past years, dead birds had been tested periodically for the virus, but there was no testing of standing water pools.
Riser suggested parish residents take three primary steps to protect themselves: "wear long sleeves, especially in early morning or evening; use spray-on repellent and get rid of standing water."
He also said residents should keep lawns and nearby weeds cut, "because mosquitoes use high grasses as hiding spots during the day."
He added that standing water in unusual places, like in the bottoms of unused tires and in trays under flowerpots, could be breeding sources for the insect. |
|
|
E-mail Story
Print Story
