September 13, 2006: Fogging health workers in India

xoB suggests this WaPo day in pics item. It's health department workers in Srinagar, India.

They've had massive monsoon rains that have flooded wide areas in the Kashmir valley. Apparently one of the things they do is to spray disinfectant as soon as the flood waters recede.

So I guess that guy is disinfected, then.

Unimaginable and strange. A combination of cleanliness and utter filth. Of forward thinking and backward living. Maybe it's just the best choice in a bad situation.

Somehow, being sprayed in the face with DDT doesn't quite fulfill my idea of what a Health Department should be doing.

I hope he thoroughly read the Material Safety Data Sheet.

Maybe it's just a whole lot of Drakkar Noir eau de cologne.

Actually I believe this is a photo of a man with the world's largest puffy white beard

Nobody has a larger, puffier, whiter beard than God.

It's the MOSQUITO MAN!!!!!

I think it looks Photoschopped to make it more whitier and puffier.

No matter what kind of insecticide they use, every time I've had contact with those bug foggers they left an oily film that smelled like kerosene. It's probably some kind of petroleum distillate, so it will coat the surface of any standing water and not evaporate quickly. I should think they probably use the same (primitive) technology over there.

The guys on the truck look like they're saying "Take that, beatch!". "Watch this guy... he's really gonna DO it!".

I reckon legs are exempt from disinfection. As long as you get the face really well.

I agree with barefoot serpent; the area to the upper left of the guy's head looks totally photoshopped, clone tool style.

Hmmm, yes it does, the thinner smoke above the heavy cloud coming out of the gun. Maybe trying the block something on that building? Quick, call Little Green Footballs, we got the goods on the Washington Post.

PS ~ I just checked the WaPo web site, it shows up clearly, but God knows why they would do it unless the picture got damaged in the transmission?

There are some days leaving work when I feel like someone should do that to me before I walk into my house or otherwise engage in contact with normal society.

OK, does anybody remember "I am Curious Yellow"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Curious_(Yellow)

I am thinking of the scene when they go to a clinic because they have crabs, and this old lady uses a paint brush to cover them with disinfectant. That scene has stuck in my mind for some time.

Now we know where Hajj went after being sacked by Reuters.

To AP! The photo credit is Mukhtar Khan-AP

Here in Central FL we get trucks that fog the neighborhoods for mosquitoes, always have as long as I can remember. Sucks to get stuck behind one in your car, or worse, have one fog you on your bike when you were a kid.

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I live in Houston and they do this all the time in the summer here. At night while lying in bed you can hear the truck coming; it has a beeper and flashing lights and they are spraying something to kill the mosquitos. We have air conditioning so I think we are somewhat safe. It does one to wonder if one lone spray machine can actually do anything against hordes of mosquitos.

It works, chris...hard to believe but it helps a lot with the little blood suckers. I sometimes wonder what else it kills, though?

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce No matter what kind of insecticide they use, every time I've had contact with those bug foggers they left an oily film that smelled like kerosene. It's probably some kind of petroleum distillate, so it will coat the surface of any standing water and not evaporate quickly. I should think they probably use the same (primitive) technology over there.