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Ways to Avoid
West Nile Virus
As of Thursday, Aug. 22,
the state of Georgia had at
least six probable human
cases of West Nile virus
(WNV) infection.
According to the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources, Division of Public
Health, the probable cases
are based on blood samples
from a Perry woman, an
Atlanta man, a man from
Covington and three men in
Columbus. A 77-year-old
Columbus man and a 51-year-
old man from Atlanta has died
from the virus.
Specimens for all of these
cases have been sent to the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) and
confirmation is expected
sometime this week.
State and local public
health officials have said they
are not surprised by report-
ed cases.
"We have been monitor-
ing WNV since early spring
and knew it was active
throughout the state," said
Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D.,
M.P.H., director of the
Division of Public Health.
"That's why state and local
health departments have
been working together to con-
trol mosquito populations and
to teach people how they can
protect themselves."
Although the probable
human cases were reported
in four counties - Houston,
Fulton, Newton and
Muscogee, state and public
health officials stress that
WNV can be found through-
out Georgia. To date, the virus
has been confirmed in 12 of
159 counties in Georgia this
year, including 82 birds, two
horses and 16 mosquito pools.
According to Toomey,
WNV arrived in Georgia last
year, and there is currently
no way to eradicate it, so we
expect it to be with use very
summer for the foreseeable
future.
Fortunately, however,
Possible.
• Use a misquito repellant
that contains DEFr (the
chemical N-N-diethyl meta-
toluamide) when outdoors.
• When possible, wear
long-sleeved clothes and long
pants treated with repellents
containing permethrin or
DEET since mosquitoes may
bite through thin clothing. Do
not apply repellents contain-
ing permethrin directly to
exposed skin. If you spray
your clothing, there is no need
to spray repellent containg
DEET on the skin under you
clothing.
• Consider staying
indoors at dawn, dusk, and in
the early evening, which are
peak mosquito biting times.
• Limit the number of
places available for mosqui-
toes to lay their eggs by elim-
inating standing water
sources from around your
home.
• Check to see if there is
an orgainized mosquito con-
trol program in your area. If
no program exists, work with
your local government offi-
cials to establish a program.
The American Mosquito
Control Association can pro-
vide advice, and their book
Organiation for Mosquito
Control is a useful reference.
another source of informa-
tion about pesticides and
repellents is the National
Presticide Information
Center, which also operates
a toll-free information line:
1-800-858-7378 (check their
website for hours).
IMPORTANT NOTES:
there are steps people can • WNV is spread by the
take to protect themselves., bite of an infected mosquito,
Prevention is always impor- and can infect people, hats-
tant to fighting disease, but
in the case of WMV, it is th
eonly weapon we have.
It is important to remem-
ber that currently, there is no
cure for WNV, but there are
simple things you can do to
reduce your risk of contract-
ing the virus in the first place.
State Health officials are
advising Georgians to take
the following measurers to
protect themselves as WVN:
• You should try and avoid
misquito bites as much as
s, many types of birds, and
some other animals.
• Most people who
become infected with WNV
will have either no symptoms
or only mild ones.
• On rare occassions,
WNV infection can result in
a severe and sometimes fatal
illness known as West Nile
encephtis (an inflamma-
tion of the brain).
• There is no evidence to
suggest that WNV can be
spread from person to per-
son or from animal to person.
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Dress Codes That Need
While actress Whoopi
Goldberg was in Atlanta
recently for her one-woman
show, she stayed at the down-
town RitzW_arlton Hotel
She was refused entrance
to the Ritz restaurant, howev-
er, because she did#t look like
the Ritz thinks you ought to leak
when you eat in one of their
hotels.
Let's just say that Whoopi
will never make the cover of
Mademoiselle.
I often have w(mdered why
restaurants and bars are so
picky about hew somebody
looks or dresses when they
come in and offer their busi-
Take the sign that says NO
SHIRT, NO SHOES, NO SER-
VICE.
DOESTHIS MF.AN as long
as I have on a shirt and shoes
I can take off my pants and still
get the bacon r?
The least they could do in
a restaurant with a sign like
that is to say, "You can come
in without your shirt or shoes,
but I'll take your order ff you'll
just wait outside while it's cook-
hag."
I've never been fond of the
sign that says GENTLEMEN
ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR
JACKETS AND TIES.
I've always figured restau-
rants have rules like that to
rnake certain they dont get any
riffraff.
But some very riffraffy
people wear ties. Ed Meese,
Jimmy Swaggert, AI Capone
wore ties didnX they?
I DON'r KNOW if medical
science has looked into it, but
I would suppose that wearing
a jacket and tie and trying to
eat in a place where they won
allow you to drink your beer
from a bottle would not be that
good for the digestion.
The jacket restricts move-
ment and the tie probably is
some detriment to circulatiorL
The dress code, then, could lead
to such maladies as heartburn,
indigestion and even ulcers.
If it turns out such restau-
rants have a deal going with
the Maalox people, I wouldn't
be surprise&
I saw a sign in a hotel bar
in Jacksonville, Florida recent-
ly that completely baffled me.
It said Casual, StylishAttire
ordy.
The first thing I did when
I saw that sign was to look and
see what I was wearing. I was
wearing a golf shirt, Khaki
slacks and loafers with no
socks.
There was no questitm that
I was casual, but was I stylish
as well?
It depended, I suppose, on
various personal points of view.
"Something out of a
Sears catalog,"
might say. "Definitely noCt
ish."
A more mature
might say, however
aged preppy, huh? Very .
ish, please come in."
With some
walked into the '
a seat at the bar.
"Before I order," I
the bartender, a woman,
you think my outfit is
enough to be
"Youll do,"
what ya drankin'?"
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Knowing the Faithfulness of God
There are times when we
go through the difficult
times of life. Those times may
be times of sickness, death,
family problems, financial
reverses, or the everyday
temptations of life. Someone
has made the statement, "You
are either in a storm, coming
out of a storm, or headed to
a storm." It is during these
difficult days of life that one
of the many tactics of Satan
comes to bear on our lives,
andthat is his weapon of accu-
sation.
The devil by name means
an accuser. From a careful
study of the Bible, one can
find that Satan has four tar-
gets for his accusations. He
will accuse man to God, man
to man, man to himself, and
he will also accuse God to
man. It is during the trials of
life that one will find Satan
accusing God to man. While
in those difficult days, the
enemy of souls will try to cast
a dark shadow on the grace
and mercy of God Almighty.
He will bring things to our
minds like, "If God really
loved you, then why did he let
your father die?" Or he might
say, "If God is so great, then
why didn't he stop your child
from having that wreck?"
One of the goals of Satan
is to hinder and even try to
stop people from placing
their faith in the living God
of glory (2 Corinthians 4:4).
But, John eight tells us that
Satan is a liar and the father
of lies. Dear child of God,
when the dark days of life
come, rest assured that God
is faithful. There has not been
one promise of God that has
"fallen to the ground."
However, because we are still
living in this robe of flesh, we
often struggle iaur faith in
God's control of s. Many
times we are like Job who said
in Job chapter twenty-three
and verse three, "Oh that I
knew where I might find him!
That I might come even to his
seat."
He also said in that same
chapter beginning in verse
eight, "Behold, I go forward,
but he i not there and back-
ward, but I cannot perceive
him: On the left hand, where
he doth work, but I cannot
beheld him: he hideth himself
on the right hand, that I can-
not see him: that he knoweth
the way that I take: when he
hath tried me, I shall come
forth as gold." Many times in
There
when the people of God
not see God work in
lives, but we can
dence m knowing
Hebrews
Bible
I will never leave thee!
forsake thee." Although
/8 ,,n4a may not perceive hi
gt
"""' times, he is always
these
t days and for those who love
of/fie thatone of the and are the
to his purpose, he is
many tactics of anthings for our l
glory (Romans 8:28).
Satan comes to -- w -"
hves, ject such00
ten b
and that-is his
weapon of accusa-
tion."
the trials we wonder where
God is and ff he has indeed
left us. Look back to what Job
said in verse nine, "On the left
hand, where he doth work,
but I cannot beheld him." Job
said that even though he could
not see God working, he was
still working. All through
scripture, we can see where
God worked behind the
scenes for the benefit of his
people.
Un
The first verse and
goes like this: "There
handtome
through ways I canno t:
While going through
world of woe,
leads me as
to the unseen
guides me thru this
reach that strand, Still f
ed by the unseen ban&"
we always remember
while in the trials of life
Heavenly Father will be
to his word and never
or forsake his childre
. Inthe
Hogansvflle
• NOT FAIR: "The
Gounty Fair Association met
,Thursday nm and decided
• postpone the annual
F, held Hogansvlle each
forthe
of the drought, the swine
,tbat has
, sales barns."
• CORDS DEFEAT
CHESTER: "In their final
season in
Wednesday afternoon the
Cords continued their
• play of the past few weeks
downing Manchester by a
of 10-9."
* GRID TIME: Coach
School Green Wave is ham
wo pceparing
ball encounter with the
Jackson County eleven
from home) on September
• BLESSED HOUSE:
Willis E.
Baptist the
and Mrs. W.A. (
ed their beautiful new home
Taliaferro Drive to the
the Lord."
