so if I asked you what the deadliest
creature on earth is what would you say
what about rats those little creeps can
give you a nasty case of hantavirus
monkeys infected with Ebola that is
horrible but no how about rabid dog nope
it’s not dogs with rabies but seriously
do not go near them no the most
dangerous animal in the world weighs two
and a half milligrams and you can kill
it
with a rolled-up newspaper the most
dangerous animal in the world is the
mosquito mosquitoes carry deadly
diseases like malaria there are about
seven billion people on the planet and
3.2 billion people at risk of
contracting malaria 198 million people
were infected with malaria in 2012 alone
and an estimated 584 thousand people
died from it that’s almost the total
population of Las Vegas and it’s not
just malaria mosquitoes also spread West
Nile virus there have been an estimated
40,000 cases in the US alone the insect
also carries dengue fever which kills
about 22,000 people every year and now
mosquitoes are spreading a disease
called chikungunya it’s already been
reported in 47 states
at the Centers for Disease Control they
are fighting back against the mosquito
the CDC brings a lot of firepower to
this fight it has a 6.6 billion dollar
budget and 15,000 employees who work
with some of the most high-tech medical
equipment on the planet but despite all
that their best tool in fighting malaria
is definitely low-tech
at the CDC these guys have their own
skin in the game about 500 to a thousand
mosquitoes by bee per week in order to
keep these mosquitoes alive I’m feeding
them on myself they’ll use this blood to
make eggs and to make babies who grow up
and then feed on me as well Paul Howell
is a scientist at the CDC this man knows
his mosquitoes he collects them he
studies them he sleeps with them and
every week he feeds them on his own
blood I can feel them actually inserting
and probing the their little mouthpiece
but I’ve been bit many times so I don’t
feel the pain that most people would
feel when the mosquito bites it the
number one thing that everyone tells me
is that why do you keep mosquitoes alive
why aren’t you finding ways to kill them
and I explained that we actually have to
keep them alive so we can find better
ways of killing them
creature on earth is what would you say
what about rats those little creeps can
give you a nasty case of hantavirus
monkeys infected with Ebola that is
horrible but no how about rabid dog nope
it’s not dogs with rabies but seriously
do not go near them no the most
dangerous animal in the world weighs two
and a half milligrams and you can kill
it
with a rolled-up newspaper the most
dangerous animal in the world is the
mosquito mosquitoes carry deadly
diseases like malaria there are about
seven billion people on the planet and
3.2 billion people at risk of
contracting malaria 198 million people
were infected with malaria in 2012 alone
and an estimated 584 thousand people
died from it that’s almost the total
population of Las Vegas and it’s not
just malaria mosquitoes also spread West
Nile virus there have been an estimated
40,000 cases in the US alone the insect
also carries dengue fever which kills
about 22,000 people every year and now
mosquitoes are spreading a disease
called chikungunya it’s already been
reported in 47 states
at the Centers for Disease Control they
are fighting back against the mosquito
the CDC brings a lot of firepower to
this fight it has a 6.6 billion dollar
budget and 15,000 employees who work
with some of the most high-tech medical
equipment on the planet but despite all
that their best tool in fighting malaria
is definitely low-tech
at the CDC these guys have their own
skin in the game about 500 to a thousand
mosquitoes by bee per week in order to
keep these mosquitoes alive I’m feeding
them on myself they’ll use this blood to
make eggs and to make babies who grow up
and then feed on me as well Paul Howell
is a scientist at the CDC this man knows
his mosquitoes he collects them he
studies them he sleeps with them and
every week he feeds them on his own
blood I can feel them actually inserting
and probing the their little mouthpiece
but I’ve been bit many times so I don’t
feel the pain that most people would
feel when the mosquito bites it the
number one thing that everyone tells me
is that why do you keep mosquitoes alive
why aren’t you finding ways to kill them
and I explained that we actually have to
keep them alive so we can find better
ways of killing them
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