Historical Nonfiction

Mighty Mosquitoes: The Bug That Changed The World

• 500 BCE: Susruta, a Brahmin priest, deduces that mosquitoes are the carriers of malaria. No one listens.
• 323 BCE: Alexander the Great is felled by a lowly mosquito, dying of malaria at the age of 33.
• 410 CE: marauding Visigoths finish off Rome, which had been weakened by malarial outbreaks. Shortly afterward, the leader of the Visigoths Alaric dies of malaria himself.
• 1658 CE: Oliver Cromwell dies of malaria, paving the way for the return of the monarchy.
• 1802 CE: Napoleon sends troops to reinforce France’s claim to Louisiana and put down the slave rebellion in Haiti. An outbreak of mosquito-carried yellow fever kills 29,000 out of 33,000 soldiers.
• 1902 CE: British army sergeant Dr. Ronald Ross gets the Nobel Prize to proving the link between mosquitoes and malaria.

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