We will probably never know how many countless victims would result. And all because the Greens would rather see you dead. Without proper action, West Nile Fever will achieve the same status of Lyme disease. Since 1980, the CDC, using very narrow definitions of this debilitating disease that causes neurologic, cardiac, musculoskeletal, and ophthalmologic programs, has identified 150,000 cases, but one actuarial study indicates that the actual number is closer to two million, costing society over one billion dollars every year. Other tick-borne disorders include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, tularemia, Colorado tick fever, and human monocytic enrlichiosis.
Ticks are currently under investigation as possible vectors of a West Nile-like virus.
Lyme disease will be back with a vengeance this spring and summer. In New Jersey, there were 1,722 reported cases in 1999. Its carriers include deer of which there are an estimated 170,000 in the Garden State. Countless thousands exist in other Northeastern States. Birds, squirrels and mice are other carriers.