The idea of something as small and insignificant as a mosquito being the key agent in recent epidemics is wholly mind-boggling to me. Something that literally feeds off of the edges of society is causing life-long complications and even death in people, even in this day and age. What is possibly the most frightening thing about the current outbreaks of the West Nile virus is that there is not a cure for it. Still a very young disease, the West Nile virus has already spread from one end of...