Let's see, West Nile Virus is spread among birds and to people by mosquitos, and perhaps among birds by mites or lice (no data there?).
Any effort to control human infection, other than by vaccination (your bailiwick), would concentrate upon control of disease carriers in addition to "monitoring." You clearly thought reporting dead birds was on topic. You apparently don't consider mosquito abatement on topic. Both are carriers. Effective public health policy would seek the most effective means to control disease transmission by carriers. You don't want that discussed and didn't make that clear at the top of the thread.
That's pretty narrow control freaking for FreeRepublic, sir, and probably not even decent public health policy, doctor.
No thank you. Threads on FreeRepublic are not private property. Lucky for you I have a lot to do today.
I've never said that mosquito abatement was off-topic. My point is that dead birds need to be identified by Freepers and then reported to public health so that viral analysis can be conducted by local labs. All of your other arguments are unfounded. Mosquito abatement is relevant, so start another thread and post your opinions on DDT there.
This thread is about how to help government identify where the West Nile Virus is. This thread was not started to provide you a podium to pontificate on DDT.