Posted on 08/06/2019 6:48:56 AM PDT by C19fan
Napoleon needed money. Soldiers sent to America got diseases and died. You could say the mosquito was largely responsible for the Louisiana Sale (Louisiana Purchase from our point of view).
How terrible. If they breed in the bilges then sailors would be right above ground zero for mosquitos attacks constantly, and no where to run!
The last cases of American malaria within the US was in Mississippi. There have been pockets of malaria show up in areas where there were veterans returning from overseas.
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