ENCEPHALITIS
WARNING--
IT IS BEING PASSED BY MOSQUITOS IN ARIZONA
PART ONE: Many Diseases ARE passed by insect vectors--
ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL DISEASES (060-066) Use additional code to identify
any associated meningitis (321.2)
Excludes: late effects of viral encephalitis
(139.0)
060 Yellow fever 060.0 Sylvatic
Yellow fever:
jungle
sylvan
060.1 Urban
060.9 Yellow fever, unspecified 061 Dengue
Breakbone fever Excludes: hemorrhagic fever caused by dengue virus
(065.4)
062 Mosquito-borne viral encephalitis
062.0 Japanese encephalitis Japanese B encephalitis
062.1 Western equine encephalitis
062.2 Eastern equine
encephalitis
Excludes: Venezuelan equine encephalitis (066.2)
062.3 St. Louis encephalitis
062.4 Australian encephalitis
Australian arboencephalitis
Australian X disease
Murray
Valley encephalitis
062.5 California virus encephalitis
Encephalitis:
California
La Crosse
Tahyna fever
062.8 Other specified mosquito-borne viral encephalitis
Encephalitis by Ilheus virus 062.9 Mosquito-borne
viral encephalitis, unspecified 063 Tick-borne viral encephalitis
Includes: diphasic meningoencephalitis
063.0 Russian spring-summer [taiga] encephalitis
063.1 Louping ill
063.2
Central European encephalitis
063.8 Other specified tick-borne viral encephalitis
Langat encephalitis
Powassan encephalitis
063.9 Tick-borne viral encephalitis, unspecified
064 Viral encephalitis transmitted by other and unspecified arthropods
Arthropod-borne viral encephalitis, vector unknown
Negishi
virus encephalitis Excludes: viral encephalitis NOS (049.9)
065 Arthropod-borne hemorrhagic fever 065.0 Crimean hemorrhagic
fever [CHF Congo virus] Central Asian hemorrhagic fever
065.1 Omsk hemorrhagic fever
065.2 Kyasanur Forest disease
065.3 Other tick-borne hemorrhagic fever
065.4 Mosquito-borne hemorrhagic
fever
Chikungunya hemorrhagic fever
Dengue hemorrhagic
fever
Excludes: Chikungunya fever (066.3)
dengue (061)
yellow fever
(060.0-060.9)
065.8 Other specified arthropod-borne
hemorrhagic fever Mite-borne hemorrhagic fever
065.9 Arthropod-borne hemorrhagic fever, unspecified
Arbovirus hemorrhagic fever NOS 066 Other arthropod-borne
viral diseases 066.0 Phlebotomus fever Changuinola
fever
Sandfly fever
066.1 Tick-borne fever
Nairobi sheep disease
Tick fever:
American mountain
Colorado
Kemerovo
Quaranfil
066.2 Venezuelan
equine fever Venezuelan equine encephalitis
066.3 Other mosquito-borne fever Fever (viral):
Bunyamwera
Bwamba
Chikungunya
Guama
Mayaro
Mucambo
O'Nyong-Nyong
Oropouche
Pixuna
Rift valley
Ross river
Wesselsbron
West Nile
Zika
Excludes: dengue (061)
yellow fever (060.0-060.9)
066.8 Other specified arthropod-borne viral diseases
Chandipura fever
Piry fever
066.9 Arthropod-borne
viral disease, unspecified Arbovirus infection NOS
PART TWO: Report on September 3, 1999 A local radio
station in Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA, reported today that encephalitis is being
passed this year by mosquitos. This was said to be a warning issued by the
Center for Disease Control, a US Government agency responsible for finding and
identifying disease. The CDC then warns the nation of any hazards afoot.
This is the first time I ever heard of encephalitis being carried
by mosquitos. Also, the word "vector" was included in the account. This
means that mosquitos carry encephalitis and are a vector reservoir, and the disease
could become much more common than it is. We also have a report that mosquitos
are carrying dengue fever in the Tucson area and south. What to do?
1. Buy Skin So Soft from an Amway distributor in your area. This
product, by accident, was made to repulse mosquitos. 2. Spray
all standing puddles lightly with kerosene and/or a poison like Malathion or Seven.
The kerosene covers the water with a skin that suffocates the mosquito larva.
3. Spray any low areas of standing water in swamps etc. Do
not tell anyone what you area doing. Naturalists would much prefer that
humans get vector borne diseases and die than to control the insects.
4. Look around your area, and in vacant land near you, for abandoned
tires with water in them. Check for buckets forgotten which may now be half
full of rain water and mosquito larva. You will have to take care of
yourself. Officials will NOT be taking an interest in you. They don't
want people to panic, so they will be a day late and a dollar short in this one.
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