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COLUMBIA – Brown Recluse spiders recently invaded a home in Marble Hill, Mo., and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MoDOC) reports you can find them statewide. According to the MoDOC, “recluse” is a fitting name for these spiders because they often hide in drawers, closets, attics and basement areas. However, they cannot climb smooth surfaces and might show up trapped in your bathtub or sink.
The MoDOC also reports the spiders have a habit of hiding in packed clothes and towels, so be sure to check clothes in storage before wearing them. If you think you have a Brown Recluse problem in your house, MoDOC also advises calling an exterminator. The spiders walk on their tiptoes, so they have little contact with pesticides.
University of Missouri Extension reports you are less likely to find one if your home is “clutter-free.” Brown Recluse bites start to show about an hour after contact, and MU Extension and the MoDOC report they are not likely fatal. The bites cause about a dime-sized open sore that is susceptible to infections. It also takes about six to eight weeks for bites to heal, and they could be followed by nausea or fever. You should get medical attention as soon as possible after being bit.
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MARBLE HILL, MO (KFVS) – A southeast Missouri family faces a frightening home invasion of hundreds of brown recluse spiders.
There are so many in fact, a Marble Hill mother says she is scared to come home. Jessica Bockhorn is staying with family in North Carolina, while her husband Darren, continues to fight the intruders.
Together, the Bockhorn family fears for their two young daughters, 7 months and 4 years, and Jessica says she’s not bringing them home until the spiders are gone.
“It’s extreme,” said Darren Bockhorn. “I’ve counted over 100 in the house right now. I’ve counted several hundred more in the traps over the last few months. There’s no telling how many are in the walls.”
He bought the home a year ago. He says they started noticing the spiders when they brought their youngest daughter home from the hospital in April.
“We started seeing them when we were up all night with Madelynn,” said Darren.
While it’s obvious a family lives in the home, Darren says he’s tired of spiders being his only roommates. He says he knows his wife won’t come home until the spiders are gone.
We spoke to Jessica on the phone in North Carolina.
“I’m scared to go back in that house,” said Jessica. “I miss my husband.”
Jessica says she had enough after a bite in June. Darren remembers when it happened.
“She looked in the mirror and it was crawling out of her hair,” said Darren. “That was just a few hours after we had sprayed.”
It wasn’t long after Jessica decided to stay with her parents. She says the pain was intense.
“I’m scared the spiders will bite one of my daughters. That’s my biggest fear,” said Jessica.
“It got to be the size of a pork chop,” said Darren of Jessica’s spider bite. “Luckily it didn’t get the tissue off.”
The house sat empty for a year and that’s when the family thinks the brown recluse spiders moved in. Despite three professional sprayings, nothing puts a dent in the problem, according to Darren. Darren says he still sleeps in the home. Now they are hoping for a way to get the spiders to move out so his wife can move back in.
“They are going to have to be completely gone,” said Darren.
Brown recluse spiders have six eyes instead of eight and a violin shape on their back.
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Experts say dry conditions in Mid-Missouri have brown recluse spiders on the move looking for water.A Centralia woman told us a recent spider bite was one of the most painful experiences of her life, ”I touched my eyelid in there was something soft there and I just real fast I grabbed it squished it and threw it across the room”, Vicki Burkhardt said.
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Prince Harry Takes His Naked Ass Back to England
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Prince Harry has just returned to the motherland, and he’s got some serious ‘splaining to do to one pissed off Queen.Harry flew from Los Angeles to England last night, hours after TMZ posted pics of the prince buck naked during a strip billiards party in Vegas.
Passengers on the flight tell TMZ … Harry did not mingle on board … he stayed in the upstairs cabin of the 747.
We contacted people at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday night, and they could not have been clearer … they’re none too pleased with Harry and his Sin City escapades.
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Michael Vick has missed 11 games over his last three seasons with the Eagles.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eagles coach Andy Reid says there’s no question Michael Vick will be ready to play the season opener despite injuring his ribs again.
Vick won’t practice Wednesday after bruising his ribs and the soft tissue surrounding it during Philadelphia’s win at New England on Monday. The three-time Pro Bowl quarterback hasn’t been ruled out of Friday night’s preseason game at Cleveland, though it’s unlikely he will play.
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The Eagles play the Browns again in Week 1 on Sept. 9.
Vick has missed three games because of rib injuries in each of the past two seasons. Nick Foles will start on Friday if Vick can’t play.
The starters are expected to play about one quarter.
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MARBLE HILL, MO (KFVS) – A southeast Missouri family faces a frightening home invasion of hundreds of brown recluse spiders.
There are so many in fact, a Marble Hill mother says she is scared to come home. Jessica Bockhorn is staying with family in North Carolina, while her husband Darren, continues to fight the intruders.
Together, the Bockhorn family fears for their two young daughters, 7 months and 4 years, and Jessica says she’s not bringing them home until the spiders are gone.
“It’s extreme,” said Darren Bockhorn. “I’ve counted over 100 in the house right now. I’ve counted several hundred more in the traps over the last few months. There’s no telling how many are in the walls.”
He bought the home a year ago. He says they started noticing the spiders when they brought their youngest daughter home from the hospital in April.
“We started seeing them when we were up all night with Madelynn,” said Darren.
While it’s obvious a family lives in the home, Darren says he’s tired of spiders being his only roommates. He says he knows his wife won’t come home until the spiders are gone.
We spoke to Jessica on the phone in North Carolina.
“I’m scared to go back in that house,” said Jessica. “I miss my husband.”
Jessica says she had enough after a bite in June. Darren remembers when it happened.
“She looked in the mirror and it was crawling out of her hair,” said Darren. “That was just a few hours after we had sprayed.”
It wasn’t long after Jessica decided to stay with her parents. She says the pain was intense.
“I’m scared the spiders will bite one of my daughters. That’s my biggest fear,” said Jessica.
“It got to be the size of a pork chop,” said Darren of Jessica’s spider bite. “Luckily it didn’t get the tissue off.”
The house sat empty for a year and that’s when the family thinks the brown recluse spiders moved in. Despite three professional sprayings, nothing puts a dent in the problem, according to Darren. Darren says he still sleeps in the home. Now they are hoping for a way to get the spiders to move out so his wife can move back in.
“They are going to have to be completely gone,” said Darren.
Brown recluse spiders have six eyes instead of eight and a violin shape on their back.
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The Wichita City Council has decided to have a public vote on water fluoridation, an issue much of the country decided half a century ago.
The measure will appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot.
After decades of pushing the issue of fluoridation to the back burner, the council was forced to take action by a petition drive.
Fluoride supporters gathered more than 11,000 signatures, forcing council members into a position where they either had to approve fluoridation outright or put it to a public vote.
Council member James Clendenin argued for putting fluoridation on the ballot, saying that citizens “do have the capacity to decide” what they want to have in the water.
He was joined by council member Lavonta Williams, who said seven people shouldn’t decide on an issue that affects every resident.
Council member Janet Miller argued that fluoridation has been proven safe and effective in preventing tooth decay and that the city should skip the ballot measure and “join the 21st century.”
Later, when it became obvious she was on the losing side, Miller made the motion to put fluoridation on the ballot and joined the unanimous council vote.
Although Wichita sells water to several surrounding cities, Gary Rebenstorf, the city attorney, said that only residents of Wichita would be allowed to vote on the issue.
The decision to put fluoridation on the ballot came after an extended public hearing in which proponents of fluoridation, mostly doctors and dentists, argued that its benefits to preventing tooth decay are unassailable.
Pediatrician Larry Hund said a study by the Sedgwick County Health Department showed 71 percent of children in the county had cavities by the third grade, compared with 58 percent statewide. Of 18,000 children screened, 2,300 had tooth decay, he said.
“As a scientist first and a physician second, I assure you there’s no scientific debate, just a social one,” Hund said. “Numerous studies over 65 years of experience have proven that community water fluoridation is safe and effective at the optimum levels.”
Opponents argued that fluoridation is at best forced medication and at worst causes diseases from heart disease to brain damage.
“I oppose fluoridation primarily because I believe in freedom,” said John Axtell, an engineer. “It’s freedom that united this country to become a nation, it’s freedom and the corollary to freedom which is individual responsibility, personal responsibility that made this nation powerful and great.”
Zella Newberry, a massage therapist, handed out tubes of toothpaste to the council members and invited them to read a warning label urging users to seek medical care if the toothpaste is eaten.
“If ingested, it says warning, it’s a poison,” Newberry said. “My case rests.”
Miller responded that swallowing toothpaste can give a person a stomachache, but that’s about it.
Pediatrician Amy Seery said that fluoride opponents and the Internet sites where they get their information make the mistake of glossing over the difference between a therapeutic trace of fluoride in drinking water and a massive overdose of the mineral.
She said any substance on the planet, including vital life needs such as water and oxygen, can be harmful in too large a quantity.
“Some people think five minutes research with Dr. Google makes them an expert,” she said.
Fluoride opponents pointed to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M., along with a number of Canadian and smaller U.S. cities that have stopped fluoridating their water as evidence that fluoridation is abating.
The Centers for Disease Control, which cited fluoridated water as one of the top 10 public health improvements of the 20th century, reported that the number of Americans getting fluoridated water grew by 9 million from 2008 to 2010.
Last year, Arkansas adopted a fluoridation mandate for all of its cities of population 5,000 or more.
A city staff report estimated that it would cost
The Wichita City Council has decided to have a public vote on water fluoridation, an issue much of the country decided half a century ago.
The measure will appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot.
After decades of pushing the issue of fluoridation to the back burner, the council was forced to take action by a petition drive.
Fluoride supporters gathered more than 11,000 signatures, forcing council members into a position where they either had to approve fluoridation outright or put it to a public vote.
Council member James Clendenin argued for putting fluoridation on the ballot, saying that citizens “do have the capacity to decide” what they want to have in the water.
He was joined by council member Lavonta Williams, who said seven people shouldn’t decide on an issue that affects every resident.
Council member Janet Miller argued that fluoridation has been proven safe and effective in preventing tooth decay and that the city should skip the ballot measure and “join the 21st century.”
Later, when it became obvious she was on the losing side, Miller made the motion to put fluoridation on the ballot and joined the unanimous council vote.
Although Wichita sells water to several surrounding cities, Gary Rebenstorf, the city attorney, said that only residents of Wichita would be allowed to vote on the issue.
The decision to put fluoridation on the ballot came after an extended public hearing in which proponents of fluoridation, mostly doctors and dentists, argued that its benefits to preventing tooth decay are unassailable.
Pediatrician Larry Hund said a study by the Sedgwick County Health Department showed 71 percent of children in the county had cavities by the third grade, compared with 58 percent statewide. Of 18,000 children screened, 2,300 had tooth decay, he said.
“As a scientist first and a physician second, I assure you there’s no scientific debate, just a social one,” Hund said. “Numerous studies over 65 years of experience have proven that community water fluoridation is safe and effective at the optimum levels.”
Opponents argued that fluoridation is at best forced medication and at worst causes diseases from heart disease to brain damage.
“I oppose fluoridation primarily because I believe in freedom,” said John Axtell, an engineer. “It’s freedom that united this country to become a nation, it’s freedom and the corollary to freedom which is individual responsibility, personal responsibility that made this nation powerful and great.”
Zella Newberry, a massage therapist, handed out tubes of toothpaste to the council members and invited them to read a warning label urging users to seek medical care if the toothpaste is eaten.
“If ingested, it says warning, it’s a poison,” Newberry said. “My case rests.”
Miller responded that swallowing toothpaste can give a person a stomachache, but that’s about it.
Pediatrician Amy Seery said that fluoride opponents and the Internet sites where they get their information make the mistake of glossing over the difference between a therapeutic trace of fluoride in drinking water and a massive overdose of the mineral.
She said any substance on the planet, including vital life needs such as water and oxygen, can be harmful in too large a quantity.
“Some people think five minutes research with Dr. Google makes them an expert,” she said.
Fluoride opponents pointed to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M., along with a number of Canadian and smaller U.S. cities that have stopped fluoridating their water as evidence that fluoridation is abating.
The Centers for Disease Control, which cited fluoridated water as one of the top 10 public health improvements of the 20th century, reported that the number of Americans getting fluoridated water grew by 9 million from 2008 to 2010.
Last year, Arkansas adopted a fluoridation mandate for all of its cities of population 5,000 or more.
A city staff report estimated that it would cost $2.3 million to start fluoridation and $570,000 a year for maintenance and supplies.
Some of the cost would be offset with private funds.
Kim Moore, president of United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, said that organization is committed to giving the city $250,000 to help fund fluoridation and that other donors are willing to provide about $800,000.
Dentist Sara Meng said the benefit of fluoridation far outweighs the cost. She said by a “very conservative estimate,” fluoridation would save Wichitans at least $4.5 million a year in costs for preventable dental reconstruction.
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Dentist Sara Meng said the benefit of fluoridation far outweighs the cost. She said by a “very conservative estimate,” fluoridation would save Wichitans at least .5 million a year in costs for preventable dental reconstruction.
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MARBLE HILL, MO (KFVS) – A southeast Missouri family faces a frightening home invasion of hundreds of brown recluse spiders.
There are so many in fact, a Marble Hill mother says she is scared to come home. Jessica Bockhorn is staying with family in North Carolina, while her husband Darren, continues to fight the intruders.
Together, the Bockhorn family fears for their two young daughters, 7 months and 4 years, and Jessica says she’s not bringing them home until the spiders are gone.
“It’s extreme,” said Darren Bockhorn. “I’ve counted over 100 in the house right now. I’ve counted several hundred more in the traps over the last few months. There’s no telling how many are in the walls.”
He bought the home a year ago. He says they started noticing the spiders when they brought their youngest daughter home from the hospital in April.
“We started seeing them when we were up all night with Madelynn,” said Darren.
While it’s obvious a family lives in the home, Darren says he’s tired of spiders being his only roommates. He says he knows his wife won’t come home until the spiders are gone.
We spoke to Jessica on the phone in North Carolina.
“I’m scared to go back in that house,” said Jessica. “I miss my husband.”
Jessica says she had enough after a bite in June. Darren remembers when it happened.
“She looked in the mirror and it was crawling out of her hair,” said Darren. “That was just a few hours after we had sprayed.”
It wasn’t long after Jessica decided to stay with her parents. She says the pain was intense.
“I’m scared the spiders will bite one of my daughters. That’s my biggest fear,” said Jessica.
“It got to be the size of a pork chop,” said Darren of Jessica’s spider bite. “Luckily it didn’t get the tissue off.”
The house sat empty for a year and that’s when the family thinks the brown recluse spiders moved in. Despite three professional sprayings, nothing puts a dent in the problem, according to Darren. Darren says he still sleeps in the home. Now they are hoping for a way to get the spiders to move out so his wife can move back in.
“They are going to have to be completely gone,” said Darren.
Brown recluse spiders have six eyes instead of eight and a violin shape on their back.
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MEMPHIS, TN–Spider populations are booming in the hot weather. Pest control companies have seen an increase in calls about brown recluse spiders in the Mid-South. Experts say the hot weather drives the brown recluse mating cycle. Several neighborhoods in Shelby County are hot spots for this type of venomous spider, such as Kimbrough Woods and Dexter Woods. Homes with wood shingles and lots of exterior shrubbery can give brown recluse spiders easy access into an attic space, their favorite living place.Entomologist James Weir, Weir Pest Control, says, “Once brown recluse get into a structure, you cannot get rid of them completely. It isn’t possible.”
Weir says residents can keep their population from getting out of control by having their home sprayed throughout the year. Just like the name suggests, brown recluse spiders are reclusive and do not seek out humans to bite them. Experts think people may be bitten by this type of spider often since it is so common in the Mid-South. People most commonly associate the brown recluse with the scary and life-threatening reactions to the venom. However, serious reactions to the venom typically only happen if a person is allergic to the venom.
“You have to have two or three things go wrong at the same time,” says Weir.
If a person is allergic to a bee sting, they are allergic to the protein-based venom of a brown recluse spider. If a brown recluse has recently eaten before biting a human, it will not contain a full sack of venom to deliver to its victim. Thirdly, in order for all of the venom in the sack to be administered, the spider must have a secure grip. If a good grip is not established, the reaction to the bite will be less.
The brown recluse poses the most danger to children because their tissue is softer and absorbs the venom more efficiently. A brown recluse spider normally does not spin a web and it has the classic violin symbol on its back.