NYP — The warm, wet summer and mild winter created a bumper crop of mosquitoes — and they’re breeding in the stagnant puddles of the steaming underground and sucking straphanger blood.
“I just wanna get home, I don’t wanna die on my way,” said Shayna Andino, 18, who claims she’s been bitten “at least 20 times” inside the 47th-50th Street Rockefeller Center station. “With Zika going around, it worries me,” she added.
Andino, who takes the B and D trains to work as a cashier at Duane Reade in the station’s concourse, pointed to three bites on her face and arms.
“You wouldn’t think that mosquitoes would get so out of control in the subway, but it’s a horrible problem here,” she said.
Stagnant water could be seen Friday pooling along the entire stretch of tracks at the station’s downtown B and D platform. more
I guess they’ve never been to DC.
Does anyone have any other reports about microcephaly’s causes? I am so distrusting of government, government paid “scientists” and media that I find it hard to believe this is 1) sudden and 2) caused entirely by a mosquito.
@Shaunqueefus – The mosquitos? Nah, to much compitition in DC.
Re: PageOTurner “Does anyone have any other reports about microcephaly’s causes?”
Some Argentine physicians have suggested that the larvicide pyriproxyfen – used to kill mosquito larva – was a potential cause.
Zika was previously seen in South America, but the birth defects were apparently not seen until pyriproxyfen was used.
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/02/18/467138913/did-a-pesticide-cause-microcephaly-in-brazil-unlikely-say-experts
http://www.reduas.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/02/Informe-Zika-de-Reduas_TRAD.pdf
I have no idea, but the chemical companies do have a pretty good track record of producing stuff they know is horribly destructive to humans, selling it anyway, and then blaming everything else for the problem for as long as possible.
@AC August 1, 2016 at 2:15 pm
I thought it was government scientists’ response to racists’ opposition slowing open borders? If you can’t import ’em fast enough, you just have to farm ’em locally.
@AC Thanks! Good post.