OK, I can hold my tongue no longer. Avoid the "lucky bamboo" it brings mosquitos into the country. Plus they come from China (communists that they are).
In addition, I have never ironed my sheets, but 100% cotton pillowcases get all knotted up in the dryer, and if you don't iron them, the crease keep creasing in the same place and you'll never get them out. Still, I'm less anal than all of you.
"Lucky bamboo has long been sold by Asian gardeners and nursery owners in Southern California. But it has become trendy recently in the United States because it is used in feng shui, the increasingly popular Chinese art of arranging one's living spaces to enhance positive energy.
Sold in 15-centimeters (6-inch) stalks, lucky bamboo sends out slender green shoots when placed in water like a cut flower." Recently, though, the charmed plant ran into some bad luck.
Shipments of lucky bamboo have brought another Asian import, tiger mosquitoes, to Southern California. In Asia the insects have been known to carry viruses that cause serious infections.
No cases of disease transmitted by the mosquitoes have been documented in the United States. And so far, the insects have been found only in maritime shipments to Los Angeles. Lucky bamboo is also shipped to San Francisco, Seattle, New York and New Jersey.
As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and local pest-control agencies have started using pesticides to treat all lucky bamboo shipments arriving in Los Angeles County.
Import restricions are possible if the mosquitoes cannot be controlled, according to the county Health Services Department.
Also banned in Ottawa.
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Health Canada advised importers to cease the
importation of Dracaena, an ornamental lily plant better known as Lucky
Bamboo, in standing water due to the potential carriage of exotic mosquitoes
into Canada. Health Canada notified the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency
to place an embargo on the importation of all shipments of Lucky Bamboo in
standing water arriving at all Canadian ports.
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Back to our "boring" day.
