[Scientists are looking at] potential long-term negative effects of having been infected, maybe not even being really sick -- maybe having a mild headache and other sorts of things -- but still having some minor neurological problems for extended periods of time. As it's better studied, it seems there're more reports of that sort of thing out there. |
Eradication is probably not something we talk about in regard to mosquito-borne diseases right now. If anything disappears it will probably be on its own accord and not because we've directly been trying to eradicate it. |
If [West Nile] goes that route, then it would be a situation where it's sort of oscillating. Every few years we'd have an outbreak or some cases and then maybe not much activity between years. |
Outside the United States there are hundreds of millions of cases of mosquito-borne diseases. It's just huge in terms of the magnitude. |
West Nile is here and is currently a potential threat ... There's no ongoing malaria transmission in the U.S. that we know of. |