Get ready Texas: because of the rains brought on by Hurricane Harvey, state health officials are itching to begin aerial spraying and plan to start- this week- in two Southeast Texas counties. Beginning around dusk TONIGHT, Thursday, September 7th, aerial spraying will commence in Refugio and Bee counties.
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While health officials admitted that most of the mosquitoes that appear after floods don’t spread disease:
- they can “impact recovery operations by preventing responders and those affected by a disaster from being outside.” [NOTE]KXAN, SEPTEMBER 6, 2017.[/NOTE](How, by being annoying?)
- and standing water could increase the number of mosquitoes that do spread diseases like West Nile and Zika.
“Health officials say a small amount of insecticide — one to two tablespoons per acre — will be dispersed by airplanes equipped with nozzles that create ultra-low volume droplets that kill mosquitoes.”[NOTE]KXAN, SEPTEMBER 6, 2017.[/NOTE]
This spraying just reminds us of all the spraying last year and all the damage it did:
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