Word: mosquitoe
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...people died during the French effort to build a canal in the late 1800s. But as a result of his work in Cuba after the Spanish-American War, a tireless American doctor named William Gorgas came to believe strongly in the new discovery that a specific mosquito spread yellow fever. Overcoming doubters, he began a widespread campaign of mosquito eradication and sanitation improvements. The death rate among canal workers plummeted...
...They raped women and burned the houses ... Sometimes people were still inside them." Says her husband, who works for local farmers for about 25¢ a day: "They took tongues and thumbs and the genitals of women and men. We want to have a normal life. We need clothes and mosquito nets...
...filmmakers Eric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach) and Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) ever teamed up on a graphic novel, it might well resemble this funny take on the complex love life of a sensitive vampire ("I bite with one tooth so that it looks like a mosquito bite") and his friends. Sfar imagines a world being shared with our own, but made up of ghosts, monsters and witches who do things like rent cruise ships so they can be with their own kind and get caught up in lots of emotional drama. (Could it be a subtle parody...
...million Deaths each year from malaria, which is spread by the anopheles mosquito and kills mostly children in Africa...
...news here is not all bad. Ticks, for example, may not be able to survive hotter temperatures in the southwestern U.S. And global warming is unlikely to have much of an effect on malaria, as long as you focus on lowland areas (because those regions already have so many mosquitoes). That picture may change, however, as you move upward in elevation. Malaria has seen a dramatic upswing since the 1970s in highland cities like Nairobi (around 5,500 ft. above sea level). How much of that can be tied to temperature increases--as opposed to population movement, lapses in mosquito...