Jim Fredericks, vice president of technical and regulatory affairs, NPMA, was interviewed for a USA Today article about how the warm and wet spring has the potential to be a boom for mosquitoes and, possibly, Zika virus.
In the article, Fredericks noted that last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 2,060 cases of the West Nile virus in the U.S., which resulted in 119 deaths.
The article also noted that the rainy, warm winter in the Southeast and a prediction of ample rain from the central Rockies to Texas from May to June set good conditions for a fertile breeding ground.
"There's not a lot of infected people, so there's not much of a virus yet," said Fredericks of the pest management association. "But a lot of folks are really concerned."
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Source: USA Today
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