Mosquito in sentence

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Because half the world's population runs the risk of contracting a killer disease like malaria through a simple mosquito bite.

First, we observed that not all mosquito species bite on the same part of the body.

On the left here you see the bites by the Dutch malaria mosquito on this person.

In contrast, the African malaria mosquito had a very strong preference for biting the ankles and feet of this person.

For 20 years, they called this guy "the mosquito man."

But of course the most dangerous animal is the mosquito.

The mosquito has killed more humans than any other creature in human history.

In fact, probably adding them all together, the mosquito has killed more humans.

And the mosquito has killed more humans than wars and plague.

It's the same mosquito, and it's the same disease.

And let's assume you're bitten by a mosquito that's carrying that virus.

Now the odd thing is, is that once you've been bitten by this mosquito, and you've had this disease, your body develops antibodies, so if you're bitten again with that strain, it doesn't affect you.

Now this is a mosquito that came, like its name suggests, out of North Africa, and it's spread round the world.

Now, in fact, a single mosquito will only travel about 200 yards in its entire life.

Mankind has transported these eggs all the way around the world, and these insects have infested over 100 countries, and there's now 2.5 billion people living in countries where this mosquito resides.

To give you just a couple of examples how fast this has happened, in the mid-'70s, Brazil declared, "We have no Aedes aegypti," and currently they spend about a billion dollars now a year trying to get rid of it, trying to control it, just one species of mosquito.

So the one thing you'll find is that where the mosquito goes, dengue will follow.

Once you've got the mosquito in your area, anyone coming into that area with dengue, mosquito will bite them, mosquito will bite somewhere else, somewhere else, somewhere else, and you'll get an epidemic.

Well we clearly need something that is effective at reducing the mosquito population.

There's no point in just killing the odd mosquito here and there.

You want to get rid of this mosquito that spreads dengue, but you don't really want to get all the other insects.

Now there are two features of mosquito biology that really help us in this project, and that is, firstly, males don't bite.

It's only the female mosquito that will actually bite you.

If there's a male mosquito that you release, and if there's a female around, that male will find the female.

In about four months of release, we've brought that population of mosquitos — in most cases we're dealing with villages here of about 2,000, 3,000 people, that sort of size, starting small — we've taken that mosquito population down by about 85 percent in about four months.

You could call it a mosquito factory.

And for Brazil, where we've been doing some trials, the Brazilian government themselves have now built their own mosquito factory, far bigger than ours, and we'll use that for scaling up in Brazil.

But whereas a G.M. crop is trying to protect the plant, for example, and give it an advantage, what we're actually doing is taking the mosquito and giving it the biggest disadvantage it can possibly have, rendering it unable to reproduce effectively.

So for the mosquito, it's a dead end.

You dispatch the offending mosquito, and calm is restored.

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