ddt.
I love an ornate conspiracy theory.
Could it be that we are under attack? Where, all of a sudden, did all the deadly viruses come from? First, we had AIDS. Not many people looked at the possible causes (other than, of course, it was God's judgment on faggots) and focused on it's effects, killing valuable fairies. Then came West Nile Virus with some logical but fuzzy explanation about birds being infected. Then came Mad Cow disease, mostly a British/European disease, at least 'til last year. Then we had SARS and some blather about eating civet cats in a Chinese restaurant. Then, we had Monkey pox, traced to Gambian rats.
Why now? We've been at risk for all of these for hundreds of years. We've always been international traders. It is like some enemy is trying out all the bacteriological weapons in his arsenal until he gets the right mix of results. Who is it? China, Israel, Iran, Russia, Cuba, North Korea? Imagine the profit in launching a devestating plague and being able to sell us the cure?
Not in the news media yet -- but birds are falling out of trees here in the Pacific Northwest. WNV may be here too.
Go here
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0503/0503westnile.htm/ to read an interesting article on why the county waits and sprays for the adult mosquitoes instead of going after them in the larva stage...
Quote from the article…
“From May 5 to May 7, more than a hundred AMCA mosquito control experts met in Washington, DC, to urge members of Congress to let them do their job by easing restrictions on larvicide spraying. The problem is the Clean Water Act whose intent is to reduce pollutants. … According to Joseph M. Conlon, a spokesman for AMCA, instead of helping mosquito control authorities to protect human life, the restrictions would have "the perverse effect of increasing reliance upon adulticides to address mosquito populations historically controlled more effectively and safely using proven public health larvicides." … Simply stated, it's better to kill mosquitoes in their larva stage of development than to have trucks spraying pesticides to knock down the adult population. The object is to kill mosquitoes before they become a threat to the health of humans and other species.
Here again we see how the environmentally inspired Clean Water Act is having the opposite affect of "protecting" people. The EPA has stripped Americans of many of the pesticides that formerly protected them against a vast range of insect pests that spread disease or inflict millions of dollars of property damage. “