Alaskan mosquitoes have not proven to be good vectors for disease. Back during the Pipeline, there were Southerners worried about yellow fever and malaria because of all the mosquitoes here. Oh, how they would panic about it. But UAF studied it extensively and Alaskans mosquitoes are mainly just annoying -- although they can make you sick from the bites alone if you get enough of them.

The thing is, the actual science of Zika has not be determined. That mosquito species also carries yellow fever, dengue and malaria (Alaskan mosquitoes are a different species). It was fought back to near extinction in the southern US and Caribbean in the 50s and 60s. Then we outlawed DTD and now it's back. Zika is worrying, the other diseases are deadly. Why weren't we worried about the Aedes earlier when deadly diseases were the problem?

I suspect it's all media hype. The current thing to keep us in the government's thrall. The sky is falling ... the sky is falling ...