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West Nile Mosquitoes Reach Toronto: Risk of West Nile Virus

By: Daniel Chubb | August 18, 2007 | 3 Comments

Risk of West Nile Virus

In the latest news, the Toronto Public Health Authorities have reported that the dangerous mosquitoes that carry the fatal West Nile virus.

The infected mosquitoes were discovered in the Bathurst St. and Eglinton Ave. area of Toronto.

In Western Canada, there have been 225 human illnesses, largely in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

A man in Manitoba has already died from a neurological form of the disease and the outbreak is likely to have environmental affects.

“People need to take measures to decrease the risk and protect themselves” against mosquito bites, said Dr. Howard Shapiro, Toronto’s associate medical officer of health.

What do you think of the West Nile mosquitoes reaching Toronto?

How should people deal with the West Nile virus?

Do you this this has anything to do with global warming?

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  • http://www.genomed.com David Moskowitz MD MA(Oxon.) FACP

    Just saying “No” to mosquitoes is useless after you’ve been bitten (and who doesn’t get bitten?), although that’s the only advice you’ll get from public health authorities.

    My company developed (and owns a pending patent for) a safe and apparently quite effective treatment for WNV encephalitis, and has been using it in an ongoing free clinical trial for the past 5 summers.

    Our initial results on 8 patients seen in Sept, 2003 were published in a peer-reviewed medical journal in July, 2004 (1). Publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal is all that’s required for a treatment to officially exist.

    Our approach lowers the host’s response to the virus–the so-called “cytokine storm”–rather than targeting the virus itself. So it may work for most viruses as a kind of general viral antidote.

    I was asked to describe our treatment to the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) in June, 2004. I volunteered to brief the Dept of Homeland Security later that summer. The UN is aware of our treatment in the context of avian influenza. It was included in the Project BioShield II Act of 2005, co-sponsored by Senators Lieberman, Hatch, and Brownback (2).

    The FDA is happy for our trial to proceed, since we use already FDA-approved medications which are known to be safe for the general population.

    I recently described our treatment on Friday, August 3rd, at the BARDA Industry Day hosted by the Dept of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC (3).

    The only agency not supportive of our efforts is the CDC, for reasons known only to them.

    21 patients with WNV have responded so far, out of 25 (84%). We’ve also treated 4 horses (3 responded) and 12 birds (6 responded; birds present sicker than humans and horses). Our WNV trial is free from our end. The blood pressure meds we use are inexpensive (around $1/day) and are available by prescription from any drugstore in the country.

    Anybody who wants to download our trial documents can do so at any time of day or night from our homepage at http://www.genomed.com.

    Beginning treatment early–within the first 48 hrs of encephalitis symptoms–seems to be the only way to avoid long-term sequelae such as paralysis, chronic fatigue, “brain fog,” etc. WNV is notorious for still affecting half of WNV victims 18 months later.

    If a family knows about our treatment ahead of time, they’ll be in a much better position to get it prescribed for their relative who comes down with the disease.

    Thanks to the inexplicable behavior of the CDC, which has redefined public health in the same way that FEMA redefined rescue, neither physicians nor patients have heard about our treatment for the fifth year in a row.

    References
    1. Moskowitz DW, Johnson FE. The central role of angiotensin I-converting enzyme in vertebrate pathophysiology. Curr Top Med Chem. 2004;4(13):1433-54. PMID: 15379656 (For PDF file, click on paper #6 at: http://www.genomed.com/index.cfm?action=investor&drill=publications)

    2. Section 2151 of the Project BioShield II Act of April 28, 2005 (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s109-975)

    3. http://www.hhs.gov/disasters/press/newsroom/spotlight/2007bardaday.html

    Sincerely,

    Dave Moskowitz MD
    Chairman, CEO & Chief Medical Officer
    GenoMed, Inc.
    “Our business is public health(TM)”

    website: http://www.genomed.com
    Ticker symbol: GMED.PK (on the OTC Pink Sheets)

  • Peter

    I’m not really sure this has anything to do with ‘global warming’ but I do think the spread of west nile around the globe is a complete given. I know west nile is already where I live so I live under the protection of a mosquito trap that uses counterflow technology.

    Personally, I feel like west nile and other disease carried by mosquitoes is guaranteed to spread the earth over, the best I can do is protect myself.

  • Darnella

    I’ve got to agree with you, there’s no stopping west nile, only our best efforts at prevention.