Desiree LaBeaud: The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease
The Future of Everything
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Are You Using Non-Purpose Containers in Kenya?
There are three types of mosquito mosquitoes that I think about often, there's anopheles, right? They're night fighting mosquitoes. There's kulex mosquitoes, which are common worldwide, too, and they spread like West Nile virus. And then the one I mentioned is 80s a jip die, she's a very bad girl because she is a very efficient promoter of human disease. She prefers to bite in the daytime, so that net is not going to protect you. You have to do what's called larval reduction, which is getting rid of containers where she breathes.
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