Posted on 06/17/2017 11:02:20 AM PDT by rktman
Upcoming Discovery Impact film MOSQUITO is a timely in depth look at this very tiny, very dangerous creature, and how it is changing in unpredictable and unprecedented ways. The film chronicles the increasing global threat this tiny animal poses while emphatically raising the points that without an international coordinated effort, the world and its citizens are at risk for a historic pandemic that could put billions at risk of a fatal infection. The global crisis is highlighted in the worldwide premiere, Thursday July 6 at 9P, on Discovery Channel and Discovery networks around the world.
Mosquitoes kill more than 1 million people a year, many of whom are children. Today, rapid environmental shifts like climate change and the ease of international travel for both humans and goods have only increased the threat mosquitoes pose, hastening their spread around the globe. As mosquitoes are now able to survive and thrive in places they have never before - including Brazil, Florida, and as far north as Washington D.C. and New York - they are bringing diseases like Zika, dengue, and yellow fever to uncharted and unprepared parts of the world.
Shot on four continents, MOSQUITO features insights from world and health leaders as well as intimate stories of the men, women, and children who are living in fear that the next bite could be a deadly one.
Mosquito is narrated by actor Jeremy Renner and features interviews with leading experts, including former CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Good thing it’s too cold in Alaska for then huh? LOL!
This is the type of statement that passes for critical thought today. I lived in south Florida in the 1950's it was covered in mosquitos. They ran the DDT trucks through the neighborhood every summer to try and keep the infestation to a minimum, but kids outside were always slapping the damn things.
To think that somehow Brazil never saw a mosquito until now would be laughable if it wasn't for the fact that so many millions of Americans are stupid enough to believe it.
As to Washington DC, the first settlers of Jamestown were victims of malaria, and it is reported that George Washington himself may have contracted the disease. Guess it was all the trips old George made to Panama.
The second one is the swatter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6pxe8jaMs&list=RDkR6pxe8jaMs#t=0
Absolutely correct. The answer to the mosquito problem and problems flowing there from is DDT.
But I heard that evolution was fake and is proved?
LOL! I remeber as a little kind in Tampa in the 50’s riding behind the trucks on our bikes. Say.............You don’t suppose that has anything to do with how I................Nah.
Any time.
Want to bet they pull in as much “global warming causes more mosquitoes” hyper-BS as possible every other paragraph?
“Trump is evil-we must-kill our economy by sending money to Paris (er, spend our money in Brussels) as soon as possible! “
The worst part is foreign mosquitoes doing the disease spreading that American mosquitoes won’t do :)
Bookmarked!
Since when did mosquitoes not live in Brazil, Florida, D.C. and New York???
The death knell for DDT was government contracts that paid by the pound without limit for aerial spraying campaigns. Of course you are going to have some heavy negative environmental impacts, any pesticide would exhibit same if you sprayed millions of pounds of it wantonly.
Given its persistence it should have been used more like antibiotics, general education to get people to eliminate breeding sources and point use for significant occurrences.
The British who occupied Washington DC in the war of 1812 regarded it as a mosquito infested fever swamp.
I occasionally drive by the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge on the Maine cost, and I want to spit out the window every time I go by.
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