The city was already facing “concerning” numbers of a mosquito species capable of transmitting the illness, amplified by an inordinately warm and humid summer, experts said. Now, they’re expecting the species to multiply in the aftermath of a flood that’s turned the city into a “prime breeding habitat.”
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Tuesday’s deluge, which dropped a month’s worth of rain in roughly three hours, may have been Toronto’s third “100-year storm” since 2013 — “We
Danger such as E.coli, mould and airborne toxins can plague a city for weeks after a deluge.
Two new studies shed light on why mosquitoes may be attracted to certain humans but not others.