New Orleans Responds to Two Deadly Threats: Hurricanes and Mosquitoes. Mosquito-borne viruses are a yearly epidemic. With another infectious disease ravaging the state and a hurricane of the century making landfall, how did abatement specialists in Louisiana respond.
Calcasieu Parish: The Perfect Storm. The air was thick with humidity coming off the lake. It smelled like warm, brackish water and hot tar road. A droning hum of summertime bugs radiated from the thick oak and magnolia trees in the yards.