West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency

Penurious Penguin writes with news from the BBC that the city of Dallas "is experiencing a widespread outbreak of mosquito-borne West Nile Virus that has caused and appears likely to continue to cause widespread and severe illness and loss of life," and writes that the city "has declared a state of emergency. West Nile virus can be asymptomatic or produce multiple symptoms, but can also lead to fevers, and the potentially fatal meningitis or encephalitis. Birds are the most common carriers and mosquitoes are the vector for human infection."

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Re:Sure hope they don't expect the gov'mnt to step

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What a hateful, ignorant comment. But then, hatred is always found next to ignorance, so I suppose there is no surprise here.