From CBS Sunday Morning
October 24, 2021
The deadliest animal on Earth is not the shark, or the snake, or the scorpion, or even us. It’s the mosquito. The diseases they carry kill over a million people a year, and in a warming climate they’re spreading to new places.
In 2013, a particularly nasty species arrived in Fresno, California: aedes aegypti.
“She’s evil,” said Jodi Holeman, who works for Fresno’s mosquito-control department. “This is a female that will bite you multiple times. She’s very, very aggressive. The one thing that you can say with great certainty is we don’t have any very strong methods of control for this particular mosquito.”