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Mosquitoes are swarming around Houston. The future could bring even more.

wapo.st Mosquitoes are swarming around Houston. The future could bring even more.

After flood-inducing rain pummeled much of Texas, residents are enduring another inundation — of mosquitoes.

But “as it gets warmer earlier, we see a larger amount of mosquitoes earlier,” said Max Vigilant, director of mosquito and vector control in Harris County, where Houston is located. “We are getting hotter temperatures earlier.”

“This is the impact that climate change has had on Harris Country,” Vigilant added.

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