• Mosquitoes, Viruses and the History of the World

  • Nov 21 2024
  • Length: 33 mins
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Mosquitoes, Viruses and the History of the World

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  • For thousands of years, humans have shaped mosquito evolution while mosquitoes have shaped human history. Today on the show, Noah Rose, an ecologist at UC San Diego, tells us how mosquitoes came to love human blood. Then, Georgetown historian John McNeill makes the case for how mosquitoes – and the viruses they carry – changed the course of history in the Americas.

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