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Article: Repellent DEET wins hands down for mosquitoes.(Health)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2003
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Byline: THE HEALTH FILES by Tim Christie The Register-Guard
Until West Nile virus arrived in the United States in 1999, it was easy to forget, at least in this part of the world, that mosquitoes aren't just pesky bugs that annoy anglers and backpackers.
In fact, they're infamous spreaders of death and pestilence around the globe, transmitting disease to more than 700 million people each year, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. The Latin root of the word pest - pestis - means plague, after all.
As West Nile virus continues its steady march across the United States - it's expected to reach Oregon this summer - the need to protect ...