Thank you for posting, GracieGirl
I do think the media is being rather complacent in saying that the Zika virus is not a major threat to the USA. Not right at this moment, true, but surely better to take action now rather than wait until it is?
Several mosquito-borne diseases have been moving north over the past few years and we should take precautions now rather than wait until microencephaly cases start appearing in our hospitals.
Individual mosquitoes have a relatively small range, so eliminating standing water around our homes can deny them of breeding areas.
Brazil has been one of the first countries to utilise the release of adult mosquitoes the offspring of which fail to reach maturity. From a health perspective, this procedure is much preferable to toxic sprays and concentrates on the mosquito population itself rather than blanketing whole areas where there may not even be mosquitoes.
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