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Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes5. Sept.16 Min.

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Throughout human history, a tiny insect has influenced wars, shaped settlement patterns, halted major engineering projects, and caused more deaths than almost any other animal.

For most of history, no one understood why these creatures were so dangerous, or even that they were responsible for spreading disease.

Eventually, we learned how to fight back, but our efforts were middling at best.

Learn more about mosquitoes, how they became one of humanity’s greatest biological enemies, and how we learned to fight them, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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