For most, mosquito bites just a bothersome nuisance

It can be an innocuous tiny red spot or an insidious virus infection. But, for most of us it’s just a mosquito bite with effects that range from no reaction to a red, swollen, mega-itchy and sore blemish.

Few of the mosquitoes in our area carry diseases such as West Nile Virus and fewer carry other neuroinvasive diseases, but according to the Centers for Disease Control there were a total of 40 cases of mosquito-borne diseases in Idaho in 2013, although it didn’t say where in the state they occurred.

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