Todd Schafer’s Reviews > The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator > Status Update

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