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Apparently Maui counts much more than Big Island. National news today:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-brain...-cases-up/
Big Island is only a side mention, but even one of the Maui victims said she thinks she caught it here. They slip in a few lines:
State epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park said there is an average of about 10 rat lungworm cases each year statewide and that the recent spike is concerning. A vast majority of Hawaii’s cases are reported on the Big Island
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Yes, we are Hawaii's redheaded stepchild. Out here, all alone in the boonies. Except for next week, everybody remembers us next week!
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Boy, that's the truth KJ.
I bet those Merrie Monarch arrivals won't be eating much salad here...
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Will those Merrie Monarch arrivals even know not to eat the salad there?
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know not to eat the salad
Outreach would be bad publicity, so let's just assume they're all eating downtown at reputable establishments certified by the Department of Health.
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know not to eat the salad
I spoke to a big lettuce grower from Waimea last week.
He said no one there even talks about rat lungworm. They're more worried about global warming because the varieties they used to grow don't do as well in the higher temps. He said romaine has been particularly difficult.
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”
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I'm afraid to eat salads there, even at reputable downtown restaurants. The risk may be small, but still doesn't seem worth it.
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From my reading over the years the slugs hitch hiked inside containers of Christmas trees from the pacific northwest, which historically has had infestations
