One issue in public health is that if you do a good job- like you look for things before they are a known issue- you will find things. And now you appear to have an issue.
In Colorado, we look for West Nile. Our doctors test for it, our public health surveys for it. So now we have 5x more West Nile cases than any neighboring state. More than any state in the entire country.
But mosquitoes don't know about state lines. So do we really have a West Nile epidemic, or are we the only ones looking?
abby 🦇
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2025-11-16 16:19:26 UTC
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