Heavy activity in multiple areas, major outbreak in New York City!

In the 17 days since our last post, reports have been pouring in from around the globe about major activity in a variety of places. There =has been a new outbreak on the island of Aruba, in the Caribbean, and Germany and Spain have continued to see a great deal of activity, with over 75 reports from Germany alone. Here in the states, California and Nevada were hard hit, with nearly 400 reports between them, Iowa had nearly 200 hits, but the major news is that the situation on the east coast has been worsening considerably. Here at ZTB HQ in Maryland, the never ending hordes of ZTBs just continue to spawn as more and more cachers are affected. In New York City, in the space of only a week or so we had a whopping 561 reports, covering all five boroughs of the city, very distressing news, as with that kind of eruption we can only anticipate that the problem will grow. Overall, 31 different places were affected over the period of this report, including 13 different countries and nineteen states here in the Unites States. We heard reports of 53 ZTBs, an unusually high number. Cache with a stout walking sticks folks!