West Nile is here and is currently a potential threat ... There's no ongoing malaria transmission in the U.S. that we know of.

[Scientists are looking at] potential long-term negative effects of having been infected, maybe not even being really sick -- maybe having a mild headache and other sorts of things -- but still having some minor neurological problems for extended periods of time. As it's better studied, it seems there're more reports of that sort of thing out there.

If [West Nile] goes that route, then it would be a situation where it's sort of oscillating. Every few years we'd have an outbreak or some cases and then maybe not much activity between years.

Eradication is probably not something we talk about in regard to mosquito-borne diseases right now. If anything disappears it will probably be on its own accord and not because we've directly been trying to eradicate it.

Outside the United States there are hundreds of millions of cases of mosquito-borne diseases. It's just huge in terms of the magnitude.

All we are doing is testing the waters right now. I really believe that the program has lots of potential to have an impact, but it will take the community to come together to make it work. We all try to help in our separate ways, different church, business and community organizations, but the program will help us work together.