West Nile Spraying: Are Pesticides Leading To Toxic Exposures?
As parents in Sacramento County, Calif., put their kids to bed on Monday and Tuesday night, a pair of planes flying overhead doused a 30,000-acre area with a fine mist of pesticides. The target of the repeated aerial assault: mosquitoes. A growing number of the pests harbor theWest Nile virus, officials say, but some residents and environmental health advocates fear the risks ..