Considering that I, and a very few other people, have a natural body chemistry which mosquitoes don't like to bite, I felt it might be useful to study and figure out how/why they don't bite me and some few others like me Hey Stinky, I guess you now have an excuse for not taking a shower, your natural body chemistry repells mosquitos.
As far as making sure that your kids are wearing insect repellent, thats part of being a parent. You do make sure your kids wear their seat belts dont you? You dont allow them to play in the streets do you?
For all your paranoia, fewer people have died or gotten seriously ill from West Nile than do annually from the flu. Are you going to demand that the government figure out a way to use your unique body chemistry to drive away the flu bug also?
Dave... this thing has spread like a mutha and just this year gone from a blip on the radar screen to something that is over most of the country and has killed quite a few people. Early in the summer people were saying... well it only affects a few people and most of them don't die, but it has far surpassed that level now.
As good americans and it being fall we can now forget all about it for the next 8 or 9 months but next year I have a feeling it's going to reach California and the deaths are going to be in the hundreds. Then will it be "yeah, but more people die from heart attacks than from west nile". There's always something worse. This disease is giving me the creeps.