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Disease Hunters: Mosquito Mayhem

Our war with mosquitoes is bloody. Mosquito-borne diseases kill over a million people each year, making mosquitoes the world’s deadliest creatures. Malaria alone infected 228 million people and killed 405,000 people in 2018. Who can stop this menace? Meet the disease hunters who combat mosquitoes and study the diseases they transmit like dengue and malaria. 

Florida and Texas have ideal conditions for tropical diseases, Medical Geographer Dr. Sadie Ryan (Florida Climate Institute, Emerging Pathogens Institute) recently told Channel News Asia’s Disease Hunters: Mosquito Mayhem.

Learn more about the global effort to detect – and prevent – the spread of infectious diseases at Disease Hunters: Mosquito Mayhem.