Also known as Egypt Fever, The West Nile Virus has been ripping through the Midwest and Texas this summer. As you can see from this article, 90% of the Mosquitoes tested were positive for West Nile.
The real question is, how can we absorb the tax burden of vaccinating all these mosquitoes?
It seems that not only is it in the Chicagoland area, but Dallas and the CDC are confirming a outbreak of West Nile in Dallas. But wait, didn’t the expert say that the chances were slim that West Nile posed a threat?
I was never convinced West Nile was a serious threat, but this story comes from theFunklord’s old stomping grounds. The mayor gets West Nile while recovering from Cancer. He was not the first, as apparently others have been effected in the neighboring towns.
Every article is the same:Â Some “rare” disease rears it head, an expert explains how the chances of the disease effecting anyone are “one-in-a-million”, and the report goes on to detail all the people that have been infected.
Again, I have no idea why so many of these diseases are making the news, but they are. Is the Media seeking them out because they are so rampant, or are they rampant so they have no choice but to report?