Status Updates From The Mosquito: A Human Histo...

Another way the mosquito has changed the course of history was in Hannibal's attempt to take over rome. He got all the way to Rome, and he was thwarted by the pontine marshes in the mosquitoes that cause malaria there. He needed to have a siege not a quick strike deal and obviously The siege was not possible

So far I’m intrigued with the premise, but I’m finding the military history a bit of a slog to get through.

Coffee became linked to the malarial diseases and this is how the slave trade brought mosquito-borne diseases to the West