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Desiree LaBeaud: The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease

The Future of Everything

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Professor Desiree Lebeau tells us why the proliferation of plastic trash in Sub-Saharan Africa has a huge impact on diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. She will tell us that the plastics we use even here in the US wind up causing health problems around the world. It's the future of mosquito-borne diseases.

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