Mosquitoes likely to invade in aftermath of flooding
Thursday, June 19, 2008 | 12:47 p.m. CDT;
updated 5:11 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
BY
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY — Midwesterners watching flooding rivers can expect mosquito bombardments. But a health department veterinarian says the insects probably won’t bring disease with them.
Missouri public health veterinarian Howard Pue says the mosquito species most likely to breed in the floodwaters are “nuisance” species that leave welts and itchy bites. But he says they cannot spread the potentially deadly West Nile Virus or St. Louis encephalitis.
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Pue says that in a couple of weeks, the eggs laid by northeast Missouri’s mosquitoes will begin to hatch. And that’s just in time to greet people cleaning up after the flooding.
According to the Missouri Health Surveillance Information System, there were 444 reported cases of West Nile Virus and 30 deaths in Missouri from 2002 to 2007.
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