Hazardous to your health

[Luisa]

Originally Posted by Pangloss62

Ah yes. Dengue Fever. The "other" misquito-borne disease. When I was in Brasil, I kept seeing signs warning people not to allow stagnant water ANYWHERE for fear of the dengue. Be safe.

So what would you say to a hospital that has an open air aviary in the middle of the hospital grounds. All the ward windows open to the aviary and the mosquitos in the nurse's stations bite so bad it actually hurts? Eventually we pestered housekeeping enough to give us a jar of insecticide and we sprayed our work areas. I started wearing mosquito repellant to work too. Somehow mosquitos like my blood. I think they find it to be the perfect blend of sweetness and sweat :p

We seemed to be having a lot of Dengue admittances. I actually had a patient start a nose bleed so bad that the blood hit my face when he blew. Not much we could do for him except give transfusions and try to keep the fever down. I think Dengue is an illness that has to be ridden out. It is either the body cures itself or it doesn't