 Visit petsandpeopletogether.org to learn how to be a helper in your community. Brought to you by Maddie's Fund, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Ad Council. This time next week, I'll be sick in bed with West Nile virus, thanks to a mosquito bite right in front of my house. In eight minutes, my daughter will be in an ambulance, having an asthma attack, triggered by cockroaches.