I have to give kudos to my county, Hillsborough County, FL. The past two weekends they have held "tire amnesty" days where residents could bring in up to ten old tires each. The thinking being that water collects in old tires and mosquitoes breed in them. Also, they were handing out free mosquito-eating fish! Many of us live near lakes, ponds, retention ponds, wetlands, etc. They've also been posting on Facebook about getting rid of standing water, flushing out plants that hold water such as bromeliads, etc. Even in Miami, where they actually had locally transmitted Zika, they went around the neighborhoods educating people, giving them pamphlets and bug spray (to spray on people), and they sprayed only in the affected area. I read today where they now declared one of the neighborhoods Zika-free. I think it said something about it taking a combination of two pesticides.
And while that still may not be ideal, it's certainly better than aerial spraying a large area, that, to my knowledge, only had travel-related cases of Zika. Has anyone read where the Carolinas had any locally transmitted cases? Because that's what really baffled me. Why use the equivalent of a nuclear bomb to kill an ant? I just didn't get it. Especially when I compared that to what's going on in Florida where we actually have locally transmitted cases. Not a lot, but a few. Very strange and a huge overreaction, I thought. Just my two cents.
