Foreclosures => market crisis, homeless pets, and now...

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

...West Nile virus?

We've had a bunch of West Nile cases since late summer, including some fatalities. West Nile comes from mosquitos, and the theory is foreclosed and abandoned properties have pools of stagnant water in which the mosquitos are breeding.

[thinkerlady[$]]

I actually heard about this briefly, and didn't make the connection right away. I think I heard about it yesterday or maybe the day before, when someone was trying to make a correlation to what was happening on Wall street. I didn't get it right away.

There has actually been aerial spraying in my county, not near where we live but other parts of my county because the situation is getting bad.