Saturday, July 31, 2010

Florida Dengue Fever Skeeters Sneaky - hide in sink!

No joke it's not called break bone fever for nothing!

Mosquitoes carrying dengue fever can live indoors

Aedes has been found in Waterpiks, fridge trays, toilets

When a Palm Beach County family was plagued by a swarm of little black mosquitoes, county mosquito chief Ed Bradford knew to look for Aedes aegypti hiding in the house.



"They were in the Waterpik," Bradford said. "The family hadn't used it in a while, I guess, and there was a little water left in it."Read more at southflorida.sun-sentinel.com
 

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