Crumbling Economy Allows Deadly Plague To Sweep Through California

Posted on August 7, 2008 by andrew

Ohmygod we’re all going to die:

Health officials in California say the foreclosures crisis may be adding a new wrinkle to the fight against the West Nile virus, as standing water in pools that are being left unattended in backyards of abandoned homes becomes a potent breeding ground for the mosquitoes that carry it.

And now homeowners who have so far avoided foreclosure will die of West Nile, leaving no one to tend their own pools and resulting in even more carrier mosquitoes who will continue the deadly cycle…

I believe this is precisely how every great civilization in human history has fallen. First the people lose their swimming pools, next thing you know everyone’s dead.

» Filed Under health scares, real estate crisis

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