Mosquito-Borne Illnesses + a “30-Cent Solution” to the Global Water Crisis w/ Kurt Avery

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no that's has this year been any different in terms of insect-borne illnesses uh i believe that there was a kind of early start to a lot of these insect-borne illnesses uh showing up even i i know there were reports even back in june so can you speak to that

yeah um Yeah, first of all, there's a difference between the bites and when it hits the publicity.

So we call it an inverse pyramid.

So over the course of the winter, up north, the snow – covers them, no snow, they die, whatever.

But it's very prolific up there.

Florida, we have it pretty much nine months of the year.

So it's what we call, so over the winter, you know, in Florida, you're talking December, January, February, May, March, everybody's gotten healthy.

And then it starts, the mosquito starts coming out.

So the dengue, which is very prevalent right now, came to us from overseas.

It's not native here, but it is now.

Now we have it.

So what happens is April, the mosquitoes wake up, they start biting people.

And it's what we call the inverse pyramid.

So in the spring, you know, one person has it and then the mosquito can give it to another person or two others, whatever.

And then it starts building and building and building.

So by the time you hit August, September, There's a huge population of humans that have dengue or West Nile or whatever.

And then there's more opportunities for the mosquitoes to pick one up and give it to somebody else.

So we call that the inverse pyramid.

It starts, but you hear about it a lot more late in the year because it's so much more prevalent.

And then a lot of people will get it and not know they have it.

It's kind of flu-like symptoms unless you react a little worse than the others in it.

That's why we hear a lot about it now.

But it's here all summer.

It just gets more prolific at the end of the year because there's more people that have it to pass it on.

well

no that's has this year been any different in terms of insect-borne illnesses uh i believe that there was a kind of early start to a lot of these insect-borne illnesses uh showing up even i i know there were reports even back in june so can you speak to that

yeah um Yeah, first of all, there's a difference between the bites and when it hits the publicity.

So we call it an inverse pyramid.

So over the course of the winter, up north, the snow – covers them, no snow, they die, whatever.

But it's very prolific up there.

Florida, we have it pretty much nine months of the year.

So it's what we call, so over the winter, you know, in Florida, you're talking December, January, February, May, March, everybody's gotten healthy.

And then it starts, the mosquito starts coming out.

So the dengue, which is very prevalent right now, came to us from overseas.

It's not native here, but it is now.

Now we have it.

So what happens is April, the mosquitoes wake up, they start biting people.

And it's what we call the inverse pyramid.

So in the spring, you know, one person has it and then the mosquito can give it to another person or two others, whatever.

And then it starts building and building and building.

So by the time you hit August, September, There's a huge population of humans that have dengue or West Nile or whatever.

And then there's more opportunities for the mosquitoes to pick one up and give it to somebody else.

So we call that the inverse pyramid.

It starts, but you hear about it a lot more late in the year because it's so much more prevalent.

And then a lot of people will get it and not know they have it.

It's kind of flu-like symptoms unless you react a little worse than the others in it.

That's why we hear a lot about it now.

But it's here all summer.

It just gets more prolific at the end of the year because there's more people that have it to pass it on.