MOSQUITOES

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MOSQUITOES

• If you would see all of Nature gathered up at one
  point, in all her loveliness, and her skill, and
  her deadliness, and her sex, where would you find
  a more exquisite symbol than the mosquito?
• -- Havelock Ellis, 1920

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HISTORY

• Ancient Rome
• Scotland
• Middle ages and Henry II
• Ancient India and Mesopotamia
• Ancient China
• Egypt
• Alexander the Great 323 B.C.
• Genghis Khan and Western Europe

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Alexander TheGreat

• General, King, Ruler
• Babylon 323 B.C.
• Malaria?
• WNV?
• Typhoid?

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European Exploration

• European exploration of new lands.
• Defensive and Offensive diseases.
• Offensive germs in the New World.
• Indigenous destruction
• Slave trade
• 1890