Jon Pettyjohn on thu 5 jun 97
Hi,
here's a pottery related health risk I bet you never
stopped to think about.
The following newspaper article is from The Philippine
Star, one of the country's leading dailies:
>Wed. June 4
>HEALTH SECREATARY HAS NEW BATTLE CRY: BAN the vases!
>by Mayen Jaymalin
>"No to the vases!"
>This was the battle cry of Health Secretary Carmencita Reodica,
>who called on schools and churches nationwide to remove all
>flower vases from their midst as a precautionary measure
>against another outbreak of dengue fever.
>Reodica declared all-out war against the vases- never before
>thought of as a national threat- citing entomological findings
>that the clear stagnant water in such containers is an ideal
>breeding ground for aedes aegypti, the dengue causing mosquito.
....snip, I'll spare you the gory details. Suffice it to say that
dengue is also known as hemorrhagic fever.
I guess you guys in North America don't have to worry too much
about this, but if there's any other tropical potters out there,
think we can design a mosquito-free vase?
Jon Pettyjohn Manila jon@mozcom.com
Evan Dresel on mon 9 jun 97
At 04:14 PM 6-5-97 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
>here's a pottery related health risk I bet you never
>stopped to think about.
>
snip...
>
>>Reodica declared all-out war against the vases- never before
>>thought of as a national threat- citing entomological findings
>>that the clear stagnant water in such containers is an ideal
>>breeding ground for aedes aegypti, the dengue causing mosquito.
>
....snip,
>
>Jon Pettyjohn Manila jon@mozcom.com
>
I think a thin layer of cooking oil on the surface of the water will keep
the mosquitos from breeding and choke out any larvae which are present.
Worth checking into.
-- Evan Dresel who once had a job where he had to stand under the spinning
blades of a helicopter and shake all the mosquitos and blackflies off before
the pilot would let him in the machine to fly home.
Jon Pettyjohn on mon 9 jun 97
Hi Evan,
sorry for not replying sooner, busy in the workshop. Thanks for
the advice, I'll try to relay this to the "authorities." Pottery
got a lot of bad press here recently, an article on the dangers
of lead poisoning came out this week too, it said "don't buy
hand made pottery." As if things aren't hard enough without dealing
with all this stuff.
Where were you that you had to have the bugs blown away? Military
maybe?
thanks Jon jon@mozcom.com
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> At 04:14 PM 6-5-97 EDT, you wrote:
> >----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> >
> >here's a pottery related health risk I bet you never
> >stopped to think about.
> >
> snip...
> >
> >>Reodica declared all-out war against the vases- never before
> >>thought of as a national threat- citing entomological findings
> >>that the clear stagnant water in such containers is an ideal
> >>breeding ground for aedes aegypti, the dengue causing mosquito.
> >
> ...snip,
> >
> >Jon Pettyjohn Manila jon@mozcom.com
> >
>
> I think a thin layer of cooking oil on the surface of the water will keep
> the mosquitos from breeding and choke out any larvae which are present.
> Worth checking into.
>
> -- Evan Dresel who once had a job where he had to stand under the spinning
> blades of a helicopter and shake all the mosquitos and blackflies off before
> the pilot would let him in the machine to fly home.
>
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