There's always been dengue in Key West. All this nonsense about us getting tropical mosquito borne diseases in the U.S. because of some marginal increase in temperature is total bullshit. We've already had them. The U.S. came with malaria and most of the other mosquito borne diseases. We sprayed some crap out and treated people for the diseases and bingo! All gone! It's easy for them to be persistent in these tropical places because everyone lives in a hut and when they get malaria the go sit on their porch where a mosquito bites them and then gives it to their neighbor 20 feet away instead of being treated for it and staying inside like we would do here.
We've already had some. What makes it total BS? What of other tropical dieseases? Like westy, you're taking a small sample and calling it typical. We haven't really seen tropical diseases in temperate climes. The examples given so far are merely exceptions to the rule. What I'm talking about hasn't happened yet, but could, given rising temps.