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Aedes Mosquito: Super Resistant and Evolving

10/12/2005 10:24 PM

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Scientists in Malaysia have discovered that the aedes mosquitoes Aegypti and Albopictus can lay their aedes eggs on plant leaves, not just in water. These eggs can withstand dry condition without water up to the period of 6 months. The aedes egg can be buried under the soil, in the mud and other areas. They also discovered that these aedes eggs have thicker shells as compare to previous aedes eggs. Present aedes poisons are unable to kill these aedes eggs and when they come into contact with water they hatch within 4 minutes. Just imagine, if there are 10,000 eggs and all hatch within 4 minute, my God, there will be an new epidemic.

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Scary Stuff

10/13/2005 9:33 AM

Any time you see fauna progressing outside its natural boundaries there is some cause for worry. What is it in their environment that is forcing the change? When the creature is an insect capable of transmitting dangerous diseases, it's downright scary. The fact that the eggs can be in stasis for long periods of time, and be immune to poisons will make it terribly difficult to contain outbreaks of Malaria, West Nile, etc.

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10/14/2005 4:08 AM

REALLY SCARY!!!!! My son suffered from Dengue Fever while in Thailand several years ago. I would not wish this on my WORST enemy - And, now they (eggs & bugs) are more resistant to all types of pesticides - are we the only ones getting weaker?

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10/18/2005 4:07 AM

Everyone is really scare of Dengue fever as it may lead to death. I have a friend that suffered this dengue fever 8 year ago in Penang and he was in coma for 6 month. Luckly, he survivie. He had been put into blood transfusion for 6 month to increase the blood count in his body. Now day, we use papaya leaves to help to combat the dengue virus as there is no medicine to fight the dengue virus. It has been proven by many dengue patient. They recommended to use 2 papaya green leaves (only the green leaves without the stem) and extract out the green juice from the papaya leaves. Do not add water. It will become about a tablespoon. Give it to the dengue patient once daily untill his blood count incerase to a stable level. A lot of dengue patient use this methode and they recover very fast. But we do not tell this to the doctor because they will not belived it. Perhaps some scientist can do some study on this papaya leaves and come out with some antidote for prevention of the dengue fever.

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10/18/2005 12:39 PM

For those unfamiliar with Dengue fever, here's what WebMD says about it.

I'm intrigued by the papaya leaf cure. Although I'm surprised that no one is researching it. If it is truly effective, I'm surprised researchers, especially those from drug companies haven't jumped all over it.

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10/19/2005 12:43 AM

The secret behind the "papay Leave" is that the juice had a "cooling" effect to the human body. When a patient is contact to a dengue fever or any other fever, his body temperature rises to a certian temperature and this causes the internal of his body (organs) not able to function properly (no proper communication between each organ and the brain). This cause the human body not able to produce antibiotic to fight the virus. Therefore, this papaya leaves juice is very bitter to swallow. It taste like Won Low Kat (one of the chinese bitter medicine for body cooling). Just like pegaga juice. It is also a natural cure for dengue fever. When a patient drink this papaya juice, it help to reduce body temperature and this our body will be able to poduce antibiotic to fight the virus. In Malaysia a lot of dengue patient tested the papaya leaves and had been proven it works very well. Some patient who are in a very critical condition able to recover back at a faster rate as to compare to some pateint with blood transfusion. No doubth is works for dengue fever, it still need to do some research on it and hope that some one can come out with some answer to it.

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10/14/2005 10:05 AM

Very scary story - and more proof that evolution does, in fact, occur.

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