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>West Nile is a joke. They might as well threaten to infect us all with the common cold.

This is worse than the common cold. People die of West Nile virus.

Q. How many cases of West Nile encephalitis in humans have occurred in the U.S.?
A. In 1999, 62 cases of severe disease, including 7 deaths, occurred in the New York area. In 2000, 21 cases were reported, including 2 deaths in the New York City area. In 2001, there were 66 human cases of severe disease and 9 deaths. No reliable estimates are available for the number of cases of West Nile encephalitis that occur worldwide.
For 2002, as of July 24, there have been 12 cases of human disesase due to West Nile virus infection reported and confirmed by CDC. 11 of those cases are located in the state of Louisiana. Questions and Answers About West Nile Virus - CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID)

Take care!

You're not telling me anything I didn't already know, sheep-dip; I happen to live in the area under discussion. You're leaving out the age and prior medical status of the dead (Hint, this disease does not go around killing perfectly healthy people)

Now tell me how many people in NYC, in the same age/health demographic, died from complications from the common cold or the flu during the same time period.

Keep in mind we're 10 million people in close quarters. The mosquitoes have a target-rich environment. Yet in three years only 149 people have come down with the disease and only eighteen have died. And I'm supposed to consider this a threat? A diabolical plot? LMAO

You handwringers are such a joke sometimes. May all future terrorist plots be as insidiously diabolical as this one.