[Cachelot]

What is a bit worrisome is the statement in the article that the woman shows no signs of having a mosquito bite.

What is even more worrisome is that WN seems to be spreading just as well in dry and arid regions, where breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitos would seem to be few and far between.

And also that WN isn't the only part of this picture, by a long shot.

[FITZ]

I live in what would be considered a dry and arid place and the mosquitoes are really bad here, you go outside and they swarm all over you. Every place human or birds live has some kind of water and there would be mosquitoes. I can't see West Nile being used by terrorists because most people with healthy immune systems won't even know they have it. I'm not very afraid of getting it and I suspect I will.

[tom paine 2]

I believe that the virus is more common than just the recorded cases. I think that people who are in relatively good health, probably treat the disease as a bad case of the flu. I had a real bad case of the "summer" flu in June that I now believe was the West Nile Virus.

[justshe]

I had not thought of that!

OK.....so.......the birds (usually crows or bluejays) are bitten and infected. They fly....to areas where NEW, clean mosquitos bite the birds. Birds die...but the virus is now with a new source of previously clean mosquitos flying the friendly skies?

I am an A ----> B ----->C type person. This should be logical.