I recently had 5 family members visiting from Canada here for 11 days. I was concerned about my 2 year old great nephew being bitten by an infected mosquito. Having said that, the trade winds, the (mostly) sunny weather and being careful to wear the right clothing at night and using deet when we thought the risk might be high … and we had no problems.

My doors and windows are open all day long. I close the doors around 4:30 pm. Although my windows are screened, the sliding glass doors are not. I do not use deet unless I am going somewhere that I pretty much know is going to have a lot of mosquitos.

Nobody in my family got ill and we were literally just about everywhere you can think of going. I sit right beside the open glass doors all day every day and I haven't gotten it yet … touch wood. Those darned mozzies love to hide under my desk and I probably get a few bites a day … but I usually get mine back with my handy dandy Windex bottle. They may be able to bite me, but they don't live long enough to bight anyone else. Windex is my weapon of choice and it is 100% effective! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />