[at-l] OT: DEET and NC post.

[jbkramer@afn.org (Bryan Kramer)]

Plus there is the encephalitis that is also mosquito vectored and the
possibility of Dengue, CDC estimates that there is at least 500 cases of
Dengue in the SE US annually and that could bloom into an epidemic like
that are seeing in Brazil, at anytime.

A lot of these concerns about chemicals are not fact based, after all
the life expectancy has been trending up in the US and if all these
chemicals that people are so afraid of were really that toxic it would
be trending down not up.

Bryan

> Personally and professionally, I'd prefer to hazard brain 
> cells with DEET than with either Lyme or RMSF exposures. 
> Ideally, I'd try to get two birds with one stone by combining 
> DEET and sunscreen, particularly as I prefer the ounce of 
> prevention over a pound of cures.