A state hit by a hurricane is attacked by giant mosquitoes. VIDEO

North Carolina was flooded with monster-monsters, generated by large-scale floods, which left behind a Florence storm. The last few weeks, residents of the state have been attacked by giant bloodsucking insects, on which there is no government.

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Last Tuesday, local resident Cassie Wadowski returned home after picking up her four-year-old daughter from school. The woman and the girl could not get out of the car for quite a long time - a flock of buzzing monsters surrounded it outside, writes The Daily Mail. Wadowski filmed what was happening on a mobile phone camcorder. In the recording, you can hear the child crying and asking her mother if the wasps really attack them.

The woman replies: “They're just waiting for us to get out of the car... they're waiting to attack. What can I do about it? Nothing. I sprayed it and I don’t know what else I can do.”

“That's what we had to deal with. Look at them... I hope no one has to experience this. This is so bad".

Several other residents of North Carolina complained of huge bloodsucking insects. Last Wednesday, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper promised to give 4 a million dollars to combat the spread of mosquitoes.

"It's like a bad sci-fi movie," local resident Robert Phillips said of the mosquito invasion in Fayetteville. “They surrounded me, and one sat on me.” He looked like a small bird. I told my wife, look at the size of this thing. I said I'd have to use a shotgun if they got any bigger."

The huge mosquitoes have a scientific name - gallinippers, or Psorophora ciliata. The wingspan of gallinippers can reach 3/8 of an inch (that's almost a centimeter!). They are known for their painful bites and aggressive behavior towards people, but despite their annoying nature, they are not generally dangerous. Such a mosquito will not cause any harm to health.

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Gallinippers lay eggs in damp ground, but the offspring do not hatch from them until the eggs are covered with water. Therefore, it is floods that lead to the massive birth of huge mosquitoes. Dozens of similar species of blood-sicking insects live in North Carolina, all of them breed in wet conditions.

Two weeks after the storm, Florence dropped trillions of gallons of water (8 trillion liters) into 30, causing rivers to overflow and large-scale floods, more than two dozen districts were exposed to mosquito-affected plague.

The money allocated by the governors will be distributed among the counties, including: Bladen, Beaufort, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin, Harnett, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Moore, New Hanover, Onslow, Pamlico , Pender, Pitt, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Wayne and Wilson.

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Most of the mosquitoes that appeared as a result of flooding do not tolerate human diseases. But at the same time, they still interfere with people: they do not provide an opportunity to fully carry out restoration work and reduce activity in the fresh air.

Although extremely rare, the most common mosquito-borne diseases found in North Carolina can be LaCrosse encephalitis, West Nile virus and Oriental horse encephalitis. Almost 70% of mosquito-borne infections recorded in 2017 were acquired during trips outside the continental US.

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