Re:I'm not uber enough, apparently (Score 0)

While all this is true, keep in mind that what the root of the mutation is, is that the skeeters are increasingly resistant to the pesticide. The mutation does nothing to strengthen or weaken the diseases they pass on, so that is a whole different issue. Now, on a big-picture level, the increased resistence in the mutant skeeters could still easily contribute to a more wide-spread distribution of the disease they inflict. This in turn could result in the virus using a larger environment (i.e. more victims) for the virus to "discover" physiologies which are more hospitable to it than other, resulting in, over time, the virus evolving into it's own more powerful mutant strain, making current medicines used to treat it less affective. Same destination, different road, I s'pose, but the difference will be seen in the methodologies used to combat the situation (i.e. a different pesticide, a different medical treatment, or both).