Foreclosures Join Hands With Fire And Mosquitoes In A Dance Of Destruction

In California foreclosures have joined hands with fire and mosquitoes in a dance of destruction. In Northern California fire outbreaks have become common. Many are commenting that because of the phenomenal rise in fuel prices some are resorting to traditional methods of lighting a fire and that is causing these numerous accidents. Fires have stopped officials from spraying insecticide from the air. That has led to a victory for infected mosquitoes that inject both man and beast with a deadly disease. Mosquitoes are now breeding in the stagnant pools of empty foreclosed houses. West Nile infection is raising its ugly hood.

California has reported officially three human incidents of West Nile this year. Two were from Stanislaus County and one from the Central Valley (south of Sacramento) and the last one from Tulare County situated farther south of the valley.

In Sacramento-Yolo County a Mosquito and Vector Control agency stopped spraying mosquito insecticide from last week because of airborne sparks from fires raging below could combine with the pesticide and make it impotent. The agency hopes to start working again after few days from Wednesday.

The proportion of mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus is rather high – the number being 10 in a thousand. It is a matter of grave concern remarked David Brown of Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California. He is also the manager of Sacramento-Yolo agency. The delay in spraying understandably has increased the population of bad mosquitoes in pools of foreclosed houses. The only plus point is that the smoke from the fires will be keeping the people locked inside their houses. But that is small comfort for those who are fighting the flames of foreclosures.

To fight the mosquitoes in these foreclosed pools the Sacramento officials and also in other regions of California are turning for help to a tiny fish – Gambusia affinis. The latter feasts on the larvae of mosquitoes. The fish is delivered to any householder who makes a request. The personnel of their own accord release the fish in the water bodies if realtors or neighbours report abandoned foreclosed houses that are not being maintained, said Luz Maria Rodriguez a spokes person of the district.

As yet complete and accurate figures of foreclosed houses having pools are not available. In Sacramento-Yolo district fish have been released in the pools of 2,000 houses this year. During the same time in the previous year it was 500 houses.

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