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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