[areafiftyone]

Have you seen what comes over with immigrants? They carry everything with their clothes. I saw a program on TV that showed some pretty disgusting bugs that come in clothing boxes on cargo ships. It actually grossed me out. We get alot of our clothing from other countries and once the boxes are opened out go the bugs.

[fivecatsandadog]

Well, I think mosquitoes are the only bugs we know of that carry WNV. From the CDC website: One of the species of mosquitoes found to carry West Nile virus is the Culex species, which survives through the winter, or "overwinters," in the adult stage. That the virus survived along with the mosquitoes was documented by the widespread transmission during the summer of 2000." So, maybe a mosquito carrying WNV rode over on a plane or cargo hold. Seems pretty remote, but guess it only takes one.