TCM-Fwd:How to reduce mosquito-born illnesses

[Guest guest]

1. Eat garlic and other pungent herbs! 2. Donate

insectiscide-treated mosquito netting. I just happen

to know a place to do that, www.adra.org - they just

help people, install h2o systems, do hiv education,

smoking cessation ed (in china) w/o differentiating

qualified individuals by religion or faith. It costs,

i think, less than $20 per net.go to adra site, look

for *the really useful gift catalog* - shop away!

--- Chinese Medicine

<Doc wrote:

> Since all of these lists have recently had

discussions

> on Malaria bearing Mosquitos i am forwarding this:

>

> It could be argued that the mosquito is the most

> dangerous creature on Earth. Recent cases of

> mosquito-spread Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)

have

> Americans worried. And while cases of the illness

are

> on the rise in the US, mosquito-borne illnesses are

> even more devastating in developing countries like

> Malawi, Africa, where people regularly die from

them.

>

> Join Brad Pitt in learning more about the mosquito's

> impact on health worldwide in a new PBS special

called

> Rx for Survival - A Global Health Challenge.™ As

the

> narrator, Mr. Pitt provides important information

> about world health and offers tips you can use in

your

> daily life to stay healthy. Rx for Survival shows

how

> global health affects each one of us, and what

> individuals can do to make a difference.

> Watch a preview of the program here.

> Sign up for broadcast updates and more information

> here.

>

> " It's heartbreaking to see avoidable illness take

away

> lives. I'm pleased to narrate Rx for Survival and

> help tell the stories of people like us, different

> only because of where they were born, " said Brad

Pitt

> on a trip to Africa this past spring.

>

> What can you do to protect yourself from mosquito

> viruses? Wear long sleeves and pants, apply bug

> repellant, repair screens in your home to keep

> mosquitoes out, and drain standing water from around

> living spaces.

>

> Rx for Survival also highlights the successes in

> treating the mosquito viruses in developing

countries.

> Did you know that young children in remote regions

of

> Africa often perish because the signs and symptoms

of

> malarial fever go untreated until it is too late?

When

> the nearest health clinic is half a day's walk away,

> it's even harder to get treatment. But where there

are

> programs to educate parents and provide free

> anti-malarial medications, deaths of children under

> five were reduced by 40% in Ethiopia and 53% in

> Burkina Faso. And mosquito netting treated with

> insectide placed over sleeping areas is a powerful

> intervention to prevent malaria, since mosquitoes

> generally come out to feed at night. One study

showed

> that 90% of the deadliest malaria could be prevented

> with such bed netting.

>

> Sign up for broadcast updates and more information

> here.

>

> Have a great day,

>

> Hilary S.

> Care2 and ThePetitionSite.com

>

> PS. The mosquito's impact on health worldwide is

> explored in the series' fourth program, Deadly

> Messengers (airing November 2 at 10 p.m. on PBS–

check

> local listings).

>

>

> http://www.care2.com/newsletters

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> I cannot do everything, but still I can do

something;

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