Triangle research lab helping stop mosquito-borne outbreaks in NC
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>> IF YOU'VE BEEN OUTSIDE FOR
ANY AMOUNT OF TIME OVER THE
LAST FEW WEEKS, YOU'LL KNOW
THAT THIS IS SEPTEMBER'S PEAK
MOSQUITO SEASON IN NORTH
CAROLINA. YOU PROBABLY HAVE
BEEN BITTEN THOSE TINY BUGS CAN
PACK MORE THAN A BITE. THEY CAN
ALSO CARRY SERIOUS AND
SOMETIMES FATAL DISEASES.
THE BUREAU'S OR MILLER GOT AN
INSIDE LOOK AT A PROGRAM TO
SPOT AND SWAT THE OUTBREAKS AS
THEY HAPPEN.
>> INSIDE A PATCH OF RALLY FOR
EAST 100. HE'S BECOMING THE
HUNT TO THIS ONE ALSO CATCHES
ADULTS THAT ARE LOOKING TO
FIGHT BEAT MICHAEL DOYLE AND IT
HAS A WORKING HERE, HIS FORMAL
TITLE STATE, PUBLIC HEALTH
ENTOMOLOGIST. BUT HE'S REALLY
A FRONTLINE SOLDIER IN THE WAR
BETWEEN A MAN AND MOSQUITO.
THERE IS A LOVE HATE
RELATIONSHIP WITH SKIERS
WORKING FROM A LAB AND NC
STATE'S CAMPUS. TOIL ISN'T JUST
HELPING CATCH THE LITTLE
BLOODSUCKERS. HE'S ALSO HELPING
THE STATE TRACK 3 KEY DISEASE.
IT'S INCLUDING WEST NILE VIRUS.
>> THESE HAVE TO BE COLD TO
KEEP THE VIRUS.
ALIVE UNTIL TESTING IS DONE AT
ITS WORST. THE CDC SAYS WEST
NILE CAUSES HIGH FEVER,
VOMITING, DIARRHEA, AND IN RARE
CASES DESK. BUT SERIOUS CASES
ARE RELATIVELY RARE.
>> BETWEEN 2012 IN
TWENTY-TWENTY DATA FROM NCDHHS
SHOWS NORTH CAROLINA AVERAGE
JUST ONE TO 2 CASES PER MONTH
BETWEEN JULY AND NOVEMBER WITH
THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF
CASES POPPING UP IN WAKE
GUILFORD, CUMBERLAND,
MECKLENBURG COUNTY. IT'S THESE
VIRUSES DON'T OCCUR EVENLY
ACROSS THE STATE. THEY HAVE
HOT SPOTS.
>> AND IF THEY CAN IDENTIFY THE
HOT SPOT AND THEY CAN REACT BY
REDUCING INS ADOBE'S KILLED
POPULATION ROUGHLY A QUARTER
OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES
PARTICIPATED IN THE STATE'S
MONITORING PROGRAM SENDING IN
LIVE BUGS TO DOYLE'S LAB WITH
DUALS ASSISTANTS. KEEPING THEM
WELL, FED UNTIL TESTING DIE.
THESE ARE LITTLE DISHES THAT
SCREW INTO THERE AND THEY'RE
FILLED WITH BOVINE BLOOD.
DOYLE SAYS THE GOAL OF THE
PROGRAM IS TO BE NIMBLE WHEN
VIRUSES ARE DETECTED, COUNTIES
CAN RESPOND TO BRING IN
TREATMENTS TO SWAP THE NEXT
OUTBREAK BEFORE IT STARTS ITS
LIKE THE ART OF WAR IN WHERE
YOU IF YOU, YOU KNOW, THY ENEMY
AND FOR ME, THAT'S THAT'S HOW
DID IT. RICK MILLER, WRAL,
>> AND THERE'S NOTHING WORSE
THAN GETTING MOSQUITO TO IN
YOUR BEDROOM AT NIGHT AND
YOU'RE GOING TO BED WITH A
BOTHER. YOU ALL KNOW. YEAH, I