The loathsome, lethal mosquito - Rose Eveleth
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Everyone hates mosquitos. Besides the annoying buzzing and biting,
mosquito-borne diseases like malaria kill over a million people each
year (plus horses, dogs and cats). And over the past 100 million years,
they've gotten good at their job -- sucking up to three times their
weight in blood, totally undetected. So shouldn't we just get rid of
them? Rose Eveleth shares why scientists aren't sure.
What kind of inventions can you think of that might make mosquitos easier to deal with?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Rose Eveleth
- Artist Henry Lambourne
- Animator Henry Chung, Hannah de Spon
- Narrator Rose Eveleth
