Daniel Blumenthal Quotations

I don't think people should be unduly alarmed, ... They should try to keep the mosquito population down in their own back yard ... but I don't think they should lose sleep over it or lock themselves in the house because they're afraid to go out and expose themselves to mosquitoes.

I think the smart money would say we're going to have another heavy season of West Nile virus this summer because of the wet spring, (which means) a lot of mosquitoes,

Treatment for those infected is not very good. Many people have died,

A lot of issues that had been submerged over the last few years have re-emerged, partly because the U.S. Congress has taken the lead on a number of economics issues, which has soured things.

There were 284 deaths from West Nile virus last year, (but) 30,000 deaths from pneumonia and influenza, and those are diseases that we can immunize against, ... So this is still a quite rare condition and not something that people should be overly concerned about.