[waxhaw]

And how do the mosquitos become "infected"? Is this similar to malaria in that a non-infected mosquito becomes a carrier when it sucks the blood from an infected person or animal? I like the comment about there being no consensus on how the disease arrived in the U.S. Another gift of the Clintons and unchecked illegal immigration.

[TomGuy]

Michael Savage was talking about this last evening. He said the first case of WNV was in the Long Island NY area--close to where the UN is located--who's members have unobstructed diplomatic entry into the country. [Just supposition, of course.]

[self_evident]

Mosquitoes aquire the virus by biting infected birds. When the same mosquito bites a human, that human can be infected. It's identical to the transmission of malaria, but malaria is transmitted by a different species of misquito.