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Florida's Walt Disney World Wages Fierce Battle Against Mosquitoes.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2002
The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 21--Under laboratory magnification, the corpse of one female mosquito stood out among dozens of others captured in a patch of Walt Disney World swamp: The transparent skin of her swollen abdomen revealed muddy red contents.
She may have gorged on a bird. Disney hopes she didn't suck her bloody meal from the flesh of a guest who paid $50 to get into one of the theme parks.
In Florida, the nation's paradise for mosquitoes, few kill winged biters with the intensity and precision of Disney World. That's particularly critical now that West Nile virus, which has killed more than 80 people nationwide this year, has invaded Florida.
Disney has a full-service...
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