Mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, lice: Such humble creatures have played an outsized role in human history. During the Middle Ages, fleas carrying the bacterium that causes plague wiped out a third of Europe’s population. The Anopheles mosquito helped shape the course of the Revolutionary War, laying waste to British troops with its malarial payload. Overall, vector-borne... View Article The post Taming the Threat appeared first on Seek.
