This week’s scary bug: Is EEE really coming to get you?
I am an Infectious Disease specialist and author of Resilience: One Family's Story of Hope and Triumph over Evil and of Conducting Clinical Research, the essential guide to the topic.FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2019, file photo, Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District biologist Nadja Reissen examines a mosquito in Salt Lake City.
Warning people about risks is well and good—as an infectious disease doc, I’m all about public health and preventing illness.This week, a friend in Michigan asked for advice about EEE, after this headline appeared: Is that recommendation sound? As is nauseatingly typical these days, the advice is couched as “"out of an abundance of caution to protect the public health.”These stories of specific threats may alert about a infection, but distract from the important picture. What we should be askingThe range of ticks is expanding northward and westward from previous areas. Why? Because regions that were too cold to sustain populations of ticks are now warm and comfy.
Mosquito borne infections have gotten worse. Where do mosquitoes breed? Standing water. Why are there more areas of standing water? A warming climate, more hurricanes, and more flooding. Bonus points if you said, “growing poverty.” As professor, poor people are at greater risk of these infections. Many of their homes lack screens, let alone central air conditioning. Small pools of water might collect in trash or discarded containers, or simply from a poor infrastructure.
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