Lack of Mosquito District Spraying Due to Tight Budgets, a Recipe For Disaster

It is that time again, mosquito season, and it is a seriouseducation, roads, and other things that really cause a
issue even here in the United States. Unfortunately,raucous with taxpayers and citizens. Since mosquitoes
many mosquito spraying districts will have to cut theirare not usually on people's minds until they are out in
budgets and staff and that means less spraying whichfull force, this means by the time you realize you need
equals more mosquitoes. The problem is that a femaleto do something those critical times and opportunities
mosquito can lay 400 eggs, and you can see thehave indeed past.
problem with lack of spraying, it's a hyperbolic curveWhat things should we be concerned with? Well,
challenge in that case.SARS and West Nile Virus are just a couple for
Many of these smaller agencies fall under the umbrellastarters. But that is hardly the whole list. In other places
of various counties and yet, due to problems within the world, which the US is not completely immune
collecting property tax revenue and massive layoffstoo, there are far serious things such as Malaria,
with all those budget cuts, these mosquito districts willYellow Fever, and the likes. It's pretty darn serious, and
be short staffed and have less money to operateyet, not a lot of people are talking about it, so I will.
equipment or buy supplies to kill those mosquitoes.You see, I have concern because I just noted that our
What does this mean?local mosquito district is cutting their budgets, when in
It means that diseases, and viruses where mosquitoesreality if people are really concerned with a so-called
are a carrier or a vector as it's called will be up in 2010warming trend, then we ought to double the budget not
and 2011 unless we make arrangements to prioritizeallow it to be cut by half or a third. See that point?
these duties. That means over such things asPlease consider all this and think on it.