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Re: permethrin + DEET a bad idea



Hi Carolinabirders,  I heard the local SC NPR story here this morning.  They
said that garlic works well against mosquitoes.  Mosquitoes and vampires,
not necessarily in that order.
Irving Rosenfeld  irvingr5@comcast.net  Charleston, SC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Stuart Rose" <jsr6@duke.edu>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:13 PM
Subject: NPR: permethrin + DEET a bad idea


> Hi Carolinabirders,
>
> When the first few ticks of the year appeared in the Piedmont tragically
> early this past spring, we had a brief discussion here on Carolinabirds
> about tick repellent. I seem to recall someone recommending permethrin.
> There was just a story on the local NPR affiliate, WUNC, today, "The State
> of Things", discussing mosquitoes, mosquito-borne diseases, and
> repellents. One strong recommendation from the expert who was being
> interviewed, a researcher from the Duke U. Medical Center who was working
> with the military, was that permethrin should ***NOT*** be combined with
> DEET! Apparently the two chemicals in combination have effects far more
> severe than either individually, and the Dr. hinted that this combo might
> even have been part of "Gulf War Syndrome". Just wanted to get that
> warning out there...
>
> No bird sightings to add, just a Phidippus audax (a really cool jumping
> spider, black with white spots and metallic green mouthparts) on our back
> door.
>
> Good birding,
>
> Josh
>
>
> Joshua S. Rose
> Duke University
> Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
>
> jsr6@duke.edu
> http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/
>
>