Instead of the two-legged support invoked by GOP candidates to elicit knee-jerks from jerks, they should cough up funds to counter a pair of tiny winged six-legged invaders capable of doing serious harm. But that would mean investing in public health, hardly a GOP ideal these days.
The two invaders are previously unknown-to-California species of mosquito, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, previously unknown to the Golden State, and what makes them particularly troublesome is their role as vectors for transmission of a variety of diseases.
This map from the latest issue of the Centers for Disease Control’s Emerging Infectious Diseases [PDF] maps the spread of the insects compared with outbreaks of two diseases they carry, dengue fever and chikungunya, in California:
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