[Smokin' Joe]

I guess my question was more of one if mosquito infections occur in offspring of mothers who have bitten people or animals which were infected.

If so, the presence of infected people could spread the disease to mosquito populations which spread the disease to more people and so on. In something like that, the presence of non indigenous people who are infected (not subjected to health screening at the border due to illegal entry, for instance) could well cause the spread of the disease to mosquito populations which previously did not have the pathogen.

Parts of the area I live in are notorious for mosquitoes, and therein lies my interest.

[Finny]

I still think it's a stretch to attribue Dengue outbreaks to illegal aliens, and while I was screened and NOT allowed on any commercial airliners until a doc confirmed for the airline that what I had was Dengue, and therefore NOT CONTAGIOUS, once they knew it's what I had, they were fine with me flying back to California.

Outlawing of DDT is what has brought an increase in Dengue, IN ANY CASE, regardless of how the mosquitos get it. But this thread is a prime example of the FReeper version of "It's Bush's Fault." No matter what it is, it's Illegal Aliens' Fault.