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About Mosquito(soon to air on Discovery)
discovery.com ^ | 6/16/2017 | Unknown

Posted on 06/17/2017 11:02:20 AM PDT by rktman

Upcoming Discovery Impact film MOSQUITO is a timely in depth look at this very tiny, very dangerous creature, and how it is changing in unpredictable and unprecedented ways. The film chronicles the increasing global threat this tiny animal poses while emphatically raising the points that without an international coordinated effort, the world and its citizens are at risk for a historic pandemic that could put billions at risk of a fatal infection. The global crisis is highlighted in the worldwide premiere, Thursday July 6 at 9P, on Discovery Channel and Discovery networks around the world.

Mosquitoes kill more than 1 million people a year, many of whom are children. Today, rapid environmental shifts like climate change and the ease of international travel for both humans and goods have only increased the threat mosquitoes pose, hastening their spread around the globe. As mosquitoes are now able to survive and thrive in places they have never before - including Brazil, Florida, and as far north as Washington D.C. and New York - they are bringing diseases like Zika, dengue, and yellow fever to uncharted and unprepared parts of the world.

Shot on four continents, MOSQUITO features insights from world and health leaders as well as intimate stories of the men, women, and children who are living in fear that the next bite could be a deadly one.

Mosquito is narrated by actor Jeremy Renner and features interviews with leading experts, including former CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

(Excerpt) Read more at discovery.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: baldeagle; ddt; deadly; ecowankers; mosquito
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To: rktman

A crisis in search of a solution. Just another hand wringing panic for do-gooders to come to the rescue.

Mosquitoes are part of the natural selection process. We need them for population control.


41 posted on 06/17/2017 1:06:50 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009; null and void; KC_Lion; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; ...

Ping to Article, and esp # 11.

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42 posted on 06/17/2017 1:10:20 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: rlmorel
They were correct.
43 posted on 06/17/2017 1:16:16 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Sequoyah101

Take your Vitamin B complex. The mosquitoes have not touched me in years.


44 posted on 06/17/2017 1:21:54 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: rktman

Take you Vitamin B!! The mosquitoes will not like you!


45 posted on 06/17/2017 1:24:00 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Has to do with those who believe evolution does not exist
46 posted on 06/17/2017 1:28:20 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: Salvation

Chewing tobacco does similar. It also keeps ticks and some people away.

I also do the B Complex though and feel like it works for mosquitos.


47 posted on 06/17/2017 1:31:36 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: stubernx98
So you are pulling a Tabitha.

Go ride your hobby horse somewhere else.

48 posted on 06/17/2017 1:32:42 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: stylin19a

I remember being in Florida 25 years ago and the screen door fame was so covered in mosquito’s in the evenings it was hard to tell what color the frame was. And now they say something changed and they thrive there now?

Must not be able to find the doors now.


49 posted on 06/17/2017 1:33:06 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Bernard Marx

Exactly! Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, and Progressives working to save you! In its entire history, Zika was never known to cause microcephaly. Once Bill “reduce the population by 90%” Gates started a biotech company and performed mosquitoe experiments in Brazil it seems to be commonplace...


50 posted on 06/17/2017 1:34:25 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: rktman

DDT. Crisis averted.

Oh.

That’s right.

Can’t use DDT.


51 posted on 06/17/2017 1:36:30 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: JoeProBono

Hehehe


52 posted on 06/17/2017 1:44:08 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals are in a state of constant cognitive dissonance, which explains their mental instability.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I think the author is confusing introduced species with native ones, and is conflating adaptation of these introduced species to new environments with “global warming”.

He also is ignoring illegal aliens and other visitors as sources for these diseases.

The yunggins don’t think quite right nowadays.


53 posted on 06/17/2017 1:48:58 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: dp0622
The worst part is foreign mosquitoes doing the disease spreading that American mosquitoes won’t do :)

Or is it simply American mosquitoes getting it by sucking the blood of diseased foreigners. There was qa time when immigrants had to undergo very rigorous medical examination and testing, submitting to internment and quarantine for a period long enouh to ensure the individuals were not disease-bearers. If they were, they were not admitted at least until after being free of it. Including iontestinal flora. I bet.

Why not now?


54 posted on 06/17/2017 1:55:58 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: armourenthusiast

Magnificent warbirds.


55 posted on 06/17/2017 2:01:21 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: rktman
May I remind you of this article. This is one of the best articles on that subject, but you'll never see THAT on the "Discovery Channel" !
56 posted on 06/17/2017 2:03:26 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: VanShuyten
The point I was making is that they are not in a new environment but one where they have been for a very long time.

What does that has to do with evolution, devolution or little green men?

57 posted on 06/17/2017 2:12:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: imardmd1

If one of my nieces/nephews got paralyzed like happened to several dozen American kids from some virus a few years ago, I would be FILLED with rage at the govt.

BullS### that illness didn’t come from below us!


58 posted on 06/17/2017 3:04:23 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Yosemitest
Nope. DDT and its demise are sacred ecowanker "success". 😡
59 posted on 06/17/2017 3:52:28 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman
Wow! Mosquitos in Washington, D.C. Who knew? /s

The writer should do a little research in the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.

60 posted on 06/17/2017 4:22:36 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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