Added on October 10, 2019 Book Review “Our Dogged and Deadly Archnemesis”: A Review of Timothy C. Winegard’s The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator In 2015, mosquito-borne pathogens caused approximately 830,000 deaths worldwide. Malaria alone killed 435,000 people in 2017. Statistical extrapolations suggest that […]
Added on August 9, 2018 Book Review After the Mosquitoes Went Away: A Review of Debora Diniz’s Zika In April 2015, Géssica Eduardo dos Santos — a Brazilian woman who lived in Juarezinho, a small town in the […]
Added on July 28, 2016 Health and Wellness We Need to Talk About Chikungunya My friend from Rio de Janeiro got chikungunya virus in April. First she came down with a high fever. Soon […]