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

I didn't like the end where I felt they kissed Bill Gates but a little too much. Making him sound like he's a great humanitarian when really he's behind agenda 2030. Also they were proclimate change and pro vaccine. But I did love the history

The Panama canal officially opened on August 14th 1914

Walter Reed was credited with linking yellow fever to a particular mosquito. Unfortunately he died prematurely in 1903 of a ruptured appendix, but not before crediting all of his colleagues and researchers for the award.

The term Cajun is a derivative of the longer word Acadian

I found out that the derogatory term Coon came from the word barricoon. It was the name for a British shanty town in africa. It's all they could muster up because they were brutalized by the mosquito

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

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