81.   In addition to getting rid of standing water, officials recommend wearing bug repellent limiting time spent outside to hours when mosquitoes are inactive.

82.   In fact, with urban development and the rapid growth of cities, mosquitoes are able to breed quickly.

83.   It also recommended that people only visit cemeteries during daylight hours, when mosquitoes are less active, and that they wear proper clothing and use insect repellant.

84.   Mosquitoes are more worrisome to health authorities because they can transmit the virus to people, whereas birds cannot.

85.   Not only are mosquitoes a pest, but they can be a major health hazard.

86.   Now, the Pan-American Health Organization says, the mosquito is firmly re-established in most of the region.

87.   On top of that, health officials warned that mosquitoes will be out in force because of all the standing water and could spread deadly encephalitis.

88.   The CDC said it is unclear whether the virus will persist or pose a health hazard in the spring and summer, when mosquitoes are active.

89.   The health commissioner also urged people to eliminate pools of standing water where mosquitoes are likely to concentrate.

90.   The Mosquito was one of the fastest World War II aircraft until the invention of jet engined fighters.