{"id":32952,"date":"2018-03-30T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32952"},"modified":"2018-03-30T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:01:04","slug":"the-mosquito-gap-climate-change-and-infectious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32952","title":{"rendered":"The Mosquito Gap: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/30\/the-mosquito-gap-climate-change-and-infectious-diseases\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Mosquito Gap: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"socialtwo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>OK, I admit it, I\u2019m a freeloader.<\/p>\n<p>My neighbors asked if I\u2019d go in on a mosquito control service last spring, and I turned them down. I was skeptical about whether the \u201ceco-friendly\u201d service would actually work. But I was mostly taken aback by the cost: $750 for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Several neighbors went ahead and paid for the service, which proved so effective I was able to enjoy my back yard for the first time without first dousing myself with bug spray.<\/p>\n<p>I felt guilty \u2014 and not just because I was mooching off somebody else\u2019s pricy pest control. I\u2019d also been forced to recognize yet one more way privileged people like me are often insulated from public problems.<\/p>\n<p>As fears of mosquito-borne diseases increase and public pest management spending falls far short, private control services are rapidly expanding. The Zika outbreak in 2016 helped kick up residential mosquito control revenues by an estimated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pctonline.com\/article\/specialty-consultants-research-2017-market-report\/\">12.6 percent<\/a>. Demand has also created a market for automatic home spraying systems, which run about $4,000.<\/p>\n<p>For low-income Americans, the cost of these services would be prohibitive. Yet poor neighborhoods are more likely to have severe mosquito problems.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jme\/article-abstract\/54\/5\/1183\/3859807?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">three-year study<\/a> in Baltimore found that the greater prevalence of good mosquito breeding grounds in poor neighborhoods, including abandoned buildings and accumulated trash, led to worse infestations than in more affluent areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mosquito Gap: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases OK, I admit it, I\u2019m a freeloader. My neighbors asked if I\u2019d go in on a mosquito control service last spring, and I turned them down. I was skeptical about whether the \u201ceco-friendly\u201d service would actually work. But I was mostly taken aback by the cost: $750 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,5493,19556,19557,19558,19555,12022],"class_list":["post-32952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-mosquitos","tag-pest-control","tag-sarah-anderson","tag-zika-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32953,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions\/32953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}