Considered - the evening news show. Researchers in Texas trying to figure out how the Asian Tiger Mosquito is getting here and bringing in serious disease like Dengue Fever. I would have guessed no because the containers are seldom opened at the ports, but. . . . Needs Real Player, I believe.
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Then how would one explain the advent of diseases such as dengue fever in other parts of the world where there is no containerization. While mosquitoes have been breading in discarded tires for many decades you never had such disease above certain longitude lines either north or south. Dengue fever, malaria, yellow fever, etc bourn by tse tse flies, certain mosquitoes etc. Costa Rico just to name one country has seen a significant rise in dengue fever the last decade where there was never any reported cases before. Even if the Asian Tiger mosquito gets far north because a ride in a container it usually dies very soon because it doesn't live in that areas temperature.