Delinquent mortgages, neglected swimming pools, and West Nile virus, California.

ABSTRACT: Adjustable rate mortgages and the downturn in the California housing market caused a 300% increase in notices of delinquency in Bakersfield, Kern County. This led to large numbers of neglected swimming pools, which were associated with a 276% increase in the number of human West Nile virus cases during the summer of 2007.

SUBMITTER: Reisen WK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2630753 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature