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Giuliani Says
"We Have Not Found
A Single Infected Mosquito".by Robert Lederman
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
July 25, 2000"We have not found a single infected mosquito. No one has tested positive for West Nile Virus. People should not be alarmed, they should not be concerned. These are all things that we assumed we would have to do."- Mayor Giuliani, 7/23/2000 as he announced an expansion of spraying into Brooklyn and a resumption of aerial spraying
Looking at the facts as presented by the Mayor- there are no infected mosquitoes, not one person has been infected, no one is sick or dying-so, logically, he will expand the spraying and we should not be worried. Whew! I bet you feel much better now, right?
Either I'm still dreaming or there is a very nasty scam being perpetrated on eight million New Yorkers.
Reading the news excerpts below may suggest to you what could really be going on here. Is the Mayor hunting genetically altered U.S. government mosquitoes [see below] or is this just garden-variety corruption with some people making a lot of money from all this spraying?
The Mayor does have a proven record of corruption and cronyism involving contracts. The City spent more than 10 million dollars last year on spraying. Are friends of the Mayor getting a cut of the profits?
This is also the Mayor who wanted to lock up all the mentally ill homeless people because some might prove to be a threat to public health and safety. What should we do with a lunatic who uses poison gas to indiscriminately attack innocent people the way some have used a chunk of concrete?
7/24/2000
Newsday
City To Expand Spraying
West Nile virus found in 2 more dead birdsby Mohamad Bazzi Staff Writer
The city will expand its spraying of mosquito-killing pesticides into new areas of Queens and Brooklyn tomorrow, after two more dead birds tested positive for the West Nile virus. ...Despite the additional spraying, Giuliani insisted that there's no cause for alarm and noted that no mosquitoes or people in the city have tested positive for the virus this year. "So far it's not as bad as last year,"Giuliani said at a news conference in the city's emergency command center. "We haven't found an infected mosquito..."...In this year's spraying, the city has not used malathion, an insecticide related to nerve gas, which generated intense opposition from environmental advocates. This year, the city is using sumithrin, a synthetic pesticide, or pyrethroid, that is marketed under the brand name Anvil. The city also has a contract to use resmethrin, another pyrethroid, with the brand name Scourge. But the city is still in disagreement with environmental activists about the safety of these pesticides. The city insists both sumithrin and resmethrin have very low toxicity to humans, but anti-pesticide advocates say they attack the endocrine and hormone systems...Joel Kupferman, executive director of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, said his group filed a federal lawsuit against the city last week and plans to seek a temporary injunction to halt the spraying. "We believe the city has not established the need for spraying,"said Kupferman, whose group tried unsuccessfully last year to halt malathion spraying. "These new pesticides may be a step down from malathion, but the toxicity is way beyond any natural products."If all goes as scheduled, all of Staten Island will have been sprayed by tomorrow morning. Portions of the borough were sprayed July 19...The city recommends that people and pets try to remain indoors, with windows shut and air-conditioners off, during spraying. After accusing the National Parks Service and state regulators last week of tying the city's hands with spraying restrictions, Giuliani yesterday said the issue was resolved. He said the National Parks Service has allowed the city to spray and place larvicide in Great Kills Park and other parts of the 26,000-acre Gateway National Recreation Area on Staten Island. Helicopters may be used to deliver the larvicide to water sources on Staten Island that are not otherwise easily reached. Those target sites have not yet been selected.
07/23/2000
AP TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The state has begun renovations at a bio-terrorism lab here that will allow scientists to conduct more complicated analyses of bio-toxins and agents of other deadly disease. Work began in January to replace a ''level-2'' lab at the Department of Health and Senior Services' agricultural laboratories building at John Fitch Plaza with a ''level-3'' facility, state officials said Sunday. James Blumenstock, senior assistant commissioner of the state Department of Health and Senior Services, said the upgrade is part of a nationwide effort to give state laboratories the ability to conduct more extensive tests of toxic agents....Once renovations are completed in November, Blumenstock said scientists will be able to conduct tests on bio-terrorism toxins such as anthrax, plague and smallpox. Also, diseases such as the West Nile virus will be studied there. Scientists had been conducting tests on the West Nile virus in the level-2 lab, but Blumenstock said they needed a better lab...There are four levels of laboratory safety, and Blumenstock said only a few facilities in the country have level-4 laboratories, which conduct research on such highly contagious diseases as the ebola virus. The lab also is using part of a $1 million grant from the CDC to hire more scientists and buy equipment, Blumenstock said. Newsday
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