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State Officials Tour Jax For West Nile

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- State and Duval County health officials and an epidemiologist toured areas of the Westside on Friday to survey areas most affected by the recent West Nile virus outbreak.

Trina Blackmore, of the state Department of Health, and Dr. Bob Harmon, of the Duval County Health Department, met at Bayview Elementary School around midday before examining the area, a day after Harmon warned residents not to panic but to be protective against mosquitoes.

"We want to control mosquitoes and limit the number of cases, and mosquito control is the way to do it," Harmon said.

There have been eight confirmed cases of the virus in Jacksonville in recent weeks. One of them, a 64-year-old woman, died Wednesday.

Harmon said the way to control mosquitoes is to treat their breeding grounds, including retention ponds and standing water. He said he and Blackmore discussed what has been done so far and whether those efforts are working.

Harmon said the treatments are working. He pointed out a retention pond in the Lakeshore area where officials sprayed, and now the pond has no mosquito activity.

Harmon said Thursday that should the outbreak worsen, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be called in to help.

He said statistics show that between 800 and 1,200 people have been bitten by infected mosquitoes in Duval County in recent weeks. He said 80 percent of those people will experience no symptoms at all, while 20 percent will have symptoms. Harmon said one out of 150 people can develop a serious neurological disease.

"Ninety-nine percent of these cases are not the serious cases we are talking about," Harmon said.

Health officials said all of the cases have been on the Westside, and none were on the Northside, as was previously reported. The woman who died lived in the ZIP code 32210, which covers parts of the Westside near Herlong Airport. In fact, four of the cases were in that ZIP code, Harmon said. Two were in the 32205 ZIP code, while there was one case in the 32244 and one in the 32254 ZIP codes.

The areas are near the St. Johns River, but health officials said the river is not to blame. They said standing water in yards and basins are where mosquitoes breed, and that's where the city is focusing its attention in spraying and testing mosquitoes for the virus.

Plastic Swimming Pools

Plastic swimming pools have come a long way from when they first came out on the market.

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Thanks to modern technology, these water filled wonders have become about just as good as – and in some ways even better than, an in-ground swimming pool.

Stronger plastic

In the past, every parent has been taunted once or twice about the stories of plastic swimming pools actually blowing up, or, although less horrifying, plastic pools getting punctured easily and deflating.  Thanks to the latest technology, the former is practically impossible and the latter is close to that.  The innovative plastic that is used today is much stronger and sturdier but still keeps the softness and bounciness to it.

Time to inflate

In the past, you either had to use a manual pump or even just merely blow it up with your very own breath.  This, as you can imagine, took quite some time.  And, for the person who actually would blow up the pool, the very act of doing so would make him too tired to enjoy it afterwards.  But now, the long wait is over as the pools of today, more often than not, come with built in pumps that do all the blowing for you in a much quicker span of time.  It usually takes anywhere from ten to thirty minutes depending on the size and the style.

Packing up or storing up

Another new thing to plastic swimming pools is the weight.  Plastic swimming pools have never been lighter- minus the water, that is.  Also, once deflated, they shrink to a very small size which makes it easy to take along on a trip and makes storing it a no brainer.

Even more fun

All of the innovations are not merely for convenience and practicality.  They are also made for fun, fun, fun.  The fantastic, activity filled inflatable swimming pools of today are a far cry from the relatively plain pools of yesterday.

Nowadays, there are so many added features that were designed to add to the fun.  Many pools come with slides that you can slip away on.  There are also games such as basketball with a hoop and a ball, or ring toss with inflatable rings.

But if getting wet is what you really want, some pools even come with water guns and blasters, some come with their very own waterfalls.  Because of all of the great features, “swimming pool” just doesn’t cut it.  These are now wonderful water wonder lands.

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