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The latest fodder for the annual summertime airing of grievances: D.C. is the third worst city in the nation for mosquitoes.

When you’re busy scratching and cursing the buggers, you can multitask and rattle off the stat that only Atlanta and Chicago have it scratchier and buggier. Detroit, Houston, Raleigh-Durham, and Boston follow.

Of course, this is all according to pest company Orkin, which bases its rankings on “the number of mosquito customers serviced in 2014.” But who needs science when you can complain about how things are just the worst the third worst here?

Regardless, mosquitoes are a real health concern. Three people in the District contracted West Nile Virus last year, up from one case in 2013. Maryland saw six cases and Virginia had seven, with one fatality, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

And Orkin helpfully notes that there is a relatively new (to the U.S.) mosquito-borne disease to be afraid of: chikungunya virus. The CDC upgraded it this year to a “nationally notifiable condition,” meaning that health departments submit standardized information to track the disease. Fourteen people in D.C. contracted it last year, though they were all travel-related rather than locally transmitted (mosquitoes spread it after biting infected people). Chikungunya causes fever and severe joint pain, and there is no cure for it.