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"Spielman and D'Antonio take a mosquito's-eye view of nature and man. They show us how mosquitoes breed, live, mate, and die, and introduce us to their enemies, both natural and man-made. The authors present tragic and often grotesque examples of how the mosquito has insinuated itself into human history, from the malaria that devastated invaders of ancient Rome, to the yellow fever epidemics that plagued the Civil War-era population of New Orleans, to the current widespread West Nile fever panic.
They portray the eccentric pioneers and heroic scientists who, in the late nineteenth century, first made the connection between mosquitoes and disease. They chronicle the attempts in the twentieth century to wipe mosquito-borne disease off the face of the earth, and how these efforts have backfired thanks to a combination of hubris, miscalculation, and misinformation; they highlight, in particular, the debacle surrounding the use and banning of DDT.
And they explain what we can do as individuals and as a society to protect ourselves and our species."--BOOK JACKET.
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Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Mosquitoes, Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology, Science, Science/Mathematics, Insects & Spiders, Nature / Insects & Spiders, General, Insects as carriers of disease, Culicidae, Pathogenicity, Insect Vectors, Disease Outbreaks, Prevention & control, Mosquito Control, Methods, Stechmücken, Krankheitsübertragung, Anofeles, Stechmücken <Familie>, Communicable diseases, Disease vectors, Tropical medicine, Ql536 .s65 2001, 2003 b-150, Qx 510 s752m 2001, 595.77/2Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe
May 2002, Hyperion
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Mosquito: a natural history of our most persistent and deadly foe
2001, Hyperion
in English
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0786867817 9780786867813
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Mosquito: the story of man's deadliest foe
2001, Hyperion
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"Consider the most common mosquito on earth, one that is likely resting in some dark corner of your very own home or, if you are reading in bed on a warm summer evening, about to issue its faint buzz-do you hear it right now?-in your ear."
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