What's The Deadliest Animal In The World?
Besides humans, of course.
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Gates Foundation info on the world's deadliest animal, mosquitoes: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Heal....th/Most-Lethal-Anima
Bill Gates' TED talk on malaria and education: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mosq....uitos-malaria-and-ed
Meet the people who are trying to eradicate Dengue mosquitoes using bioengineering:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/kill-em-all/
Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/....science-nature/why-d
FULL close-up video of a mosquito biting:
http://phenomena.nationalgeogr....aphic.com/2013/08/06
Why don't we just kill all the mosquitoes?
http://www.theatlantic.com/hea....lth/archive/2013/07/
http://www.nature.com/news/201....0/100721/full/466432
Half of all people may have been killed by malaria: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07..../17/science/parasite
Mosquitoes just hate the smell of DEET:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm....c/articles/PMC251809
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