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.
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. Its taken three years for the virus to spred across the country but it has only affected a few people. We are a country of what 260 million. Of these at least tens of millions have been bitten by mosquitos. I was even bit by an Illionois mosquito and lived to tell the story. Of these relatively few got sick enough to visit a doctor. Most had either no ill effect or had something similar to the flu. A fraction of one percent had any ill effects and of these less than two hundred have died.
I have a feeling it's going to reach California and the deaths are going to be in the hundreds.
You must have missed it but there have been several cases of WNV in California already. Does the temperature normally get low enough to kill off mosquitoes in Southern California? This could be year round problem for Californians who tend to spend a lot of time outside.