Archives for Insect pests

RE: MINNESOTA RECORDS FIRST DEATH FROM TICK-BORNE (deer tick) POWASSAN VIRUS

Release Date: 11/02/2011 Contact Information: Dale Kemery (News Media Only) kemery.dale@epa.gov 202-564-7839 202-564-4355 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today took another step in the process to cancel 20 mouse and rat control products that do not adequately protect people, particularly young people, from exposure to toxic chemicals. EPA has determined that safer rodent control products are now widely available, effective, and affordable. The products EPA plans to remove from the consumer market are those that contain the most toxic and persistent active ingredients, products sold as loose bait and pellets and any remaining products without protective bait
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RE: MINNESOTA RECORDS FIRST DEATH FROM TICK-BORNE (deer tick) POWASSAN VIRUS

Via Gary Zimmer and the Western Lake States Ruffed Grouse Society newsletter . . . A woman from northern Minnesota has died from a brain infection due to Powassan (POW) virus. This is the first death in the state attributed to the disease. One other POW case has been identified this year in Minnesota, in an Anoka County man who was hospitalized with a brain infection and is now recovering. POW virus is transmitted through the bite of an infected tick. Both 2011 cases became ill in May after spending time outdoors and noticing tick bites. The fatal case was
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Categories: Insect pests.