[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

• New York City has detected its first cases of West Nile Virus this year after infected Culex mosquitoes were discovered on Staten Island and in the Bronx


• The Health Department said it has already conducted larviciding from a helicopter over marsh areas in Staten Island, Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn


• The plan is to apply larvidcide in catch basins, marshlands and other areas with standing water so they can kill larvae before the mosquitoes can bite


• West Nile virus is a neuroinvasive disease that can cause mild or moderate febrile illness but 80 percent of cases as asymptomatic


• People 50 years or older tend to be most at risk, as well as those with a weakened immune system
  ...just like everything else, it seems...
  
• Remove standing water and wear mosquito repellent to avoid infection


• The virus was first detected in NYC 21 years ago


• Out of the 353 people who have contracted the virus 46 (13%) have died
  Terrifying. Why that’s slightly more than two per year. Let’s start panicking now.