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3 pages in length. The current state of America's economy has triggered an expansive and detrimental backlash in so many industries that it is overwhelming to contemplate the extent to which this economic downturn has trickled into areas many people would never consider. The frequency with which delinquent homeowners are abandoning their houses has become a tremendous public health issue due to swimming pools left unattended and untreated whereby the water festers and attracts virus-carrying mosquitoes. According to Goodman et al (2009), the prevalence of this particular hazard has spiked the number of West Nile virus cases. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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trickled into areas many people would never consider. The frequency with which delinquent homeowners are abandoning their houses has become a tremendous public health issue due to swimming pools
left unattended and untreated whereby the water festers and attracts virus-carrying mosquitoes. According to Goodman et al (2009), the prevalence of this particular hazard has spiked the number of
West Nile virus cases, noting "the potential relationship between environmental developments, such as those that result from major economic events, and increased risks for infectious diseases." Brain inflammation (encephalitis) and
brain/spinal cord lining inflammation (meningitis) are the two primary manifestations of West Nile virus, a pathogen that claimed the lives of seven people during its initial outbreak in the United
States (Nash et al, 2001). Recent statistics indicate the virus has infected over three hundred people in 2002, with eighteen of them suspected of dying from the pathogen (Lavine,
2002). Experts are not at all sure how this particular mosquito was brought into the country, however, educated guesses include being unwittingly transported on foreign birds, traveling humans or
even on an airplane. There have even been reports of three different people developing encephalitis after receiving organ transplants from a single individual who had West Nile virus (Altman,
2002). The disease, which spreads by a bite from an infected mosquito, can be inflicted upon both human and animal species by the same insect; if an uninfected mosquito
bites an infected bird, the mosquito thereby spreads to the insect. West Nile virus is not considered contagious by conventional standard - in other words, it cannot be passed
on without the presence of a mosquito bite. The pathogens responsible for the fast spread of infectious diseases like West Nile are those
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