U niversity of Florida researcher Daniel Swale describes his work in the simplest of terms: He studies the most lethal creature on Earth. “Mosquitoes are a nuisance to us in the United States but, in other parts of the world, it’s a life-or-death issue,” he says. “Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal in the world.” Worldwide, mosquito-borne diseases result in more than 1 million deaths each year, according to the American Mosquito Control Association. Swale is one of UF’s “m...
