UNITED STATES: AERIAL SPRAYING PROGRAMME TO CURB OUTBREAK OF ENCEPHALITIS IN NEW YORK CONTINUES
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UNITED STATES: AERIAL SPRAYING PROGRAMME TO CURB OUTBREAK OF ENCEPHALITIS IN NEW YORK CONTINUES
- Title: UNITED STATES: AERIAL SPRAYING PROGRAMME TO CURB OUTBREAK OF ENCEPHALITIS IN NEW YORK CONTINUES
- Date: 10th September 1999
- Summary: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 11, 1999) (NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/CNN) 1. CU'S MOSQUITOES BITING PEOPLE, PEOPLE SLAPPING SKIN (5 SHOTS) 0.08 2. VARIOUS HELICOPTERS SPRAYING INSECTICIDE (3 SHOTS) 0.28 NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 11, 1999) (REUTERS (A) - AVAILABLE ALL) 3. SLV NEW YORK MAYOR RUDOLF GIULIANI AT NEWS CONFERENCE IN HIS OFFICE 0.33 4. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW YORK MAYOR RUDOLF GIULIANI SAYING: "This is a disease where the danger focuses on elderly people. "Obviously there is no kind of disease that doesn't present some kind of danger to everyone, but if you're talking about where people should be alarmed or concerned, we're talking about basically people over the age of 60." 0.52 5. SLV PEOPLE WALKING DOWN STREETS 1.00 6. LV EXTERIOR FIRE STATION 1.04 7. SV FIREFIGHTER HANDING OUT INSECT SPRAY 1.08 8. SV/SCU CHILDREN USING INSECT SPRAY (2 SHOTS) 1.16 9. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) LEAH RANDALL, RESIDENT OF QUEENS BOROUGH SAYING : "Well, I have two senior citizens in the building, and I imagine it would be very detrimental if they got it too. "So I wanted to pick up three cans one for myself and two for them." 1.24 10. MV FIREFIGHTING HANDING OUT INSECT SPRAY 1.28 11. PAN EMPTY SPRAY BOXES 1.34 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIEUTENANT ROBERT JACKSON, NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT, SAYING: "Folks are coming in. They're asking, you know, they were getting one for the adults one for the children, and it seems to be a large response. "People are doing it. But I think people are afraid and they're using the product." 1.43 13. LV STREET SCENE 1.47 14. CU MAP OF AREAS TO SPRAYED 1.57 15. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) GIULIANI SAYING: "When people see spraying for the next three or four weeks, that does not mean that there are new cases. "It means that we're following the advice that we've gotten to spray on a fairly continuous basis until frost comes in. So you prevent it from returning and you prevent it from returning in the spring." 2.15 16. SV FIREMAN HANDING OUT INSECT SPRAY 2.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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- Story Text: Trying to curb a city wide breakout of encephalitis,
New York Mayor Rudolf Giuliani is continuing an aerial
spraying programme.Three people have died of the symptoms of
the disease, and the City is attempting to wipe out the
mosquitoes who carry the deadly disease.
Health authorities plan to wage war on mosquitoes by
spraying insecticide all over New York City after a rare
outbreak of mosquito-borne encephalitis that has claimed three
lives.
Health officials said on Friday (September 10) that the
number of confirmed cases of the potentially deadly,
brain-swelling viral infection St.Louis Encephalitis (SLE),
remained at nine, including three elderly people who died in
the borough of Queens.
Those being tested for the disease by the U.S.Centres for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had risen by two to 62,
however, and included people living in four of the city's five
boroughs.
Rain forced the postponement of plans to use helicopters
to spray parks, forested areas and marshlands in the boroughs
of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx on Thursday night and on
Friday morning.But health officials said they hoped to begin
extensive aerial spraying on Friday night and continue over
the weekend.
"By Sunday night we will have covered the whole city,"
said Jerome Hauer, director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency
Management.
The outbreak of SLE, the first in New York City, became
apparent to health authorities Sept.2.It is named after the
city where it first appeared in 1933 and is most commonly
found in the southeastern United States.
"This is a very, very small and very, very isolated
situation," Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said at a news conference.
He urged the news media to avoid creating undue alarm or panic
among the city's 7 million residents."When you look at the
number of cases, this has been contained dramatically."
The City Health Department advised residents in
potentially affected areas to wear long-sleeved shirts, long
pants and socks and to use insect repellent when outdoors,
especially early in the morning and at dusk, when mosquitoes
are most likely to bite.
City officials said that in addition to three
helicopters, a fixed-wing aircraft would be used for aerial
spraying for four hours in the evening and three in the early
morning.Mosquito traps had been set all over the city in
likely breeding places and in the northern and eastern suburbs
outside city boundaries, officials said.
Under a mosquito-killing strategy announced on Thursday to
try to halt the outbreak, officials said trucks would be used
to spray stagnant pools of water and other potential mosquito
breeding areas in Manhattan such as storm drains.The city's
fifth borough, Staten Island, would also be sprayed.
Although city officials have urged residents to remain
indoors and close their windows while the malathion was being
sprayed in their neighbourhoods, they said the substance was
not harmful to people or pets and would not make vegetable
gardens poisonous.
At a news conference on Friday, (September 10) Giuliani
advised residents to protect themselves when venturing
outdoors.He also said the programme to eradicate mosquitoes
from the area will continue well into autumn.
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