When Mosquitoes Were Killer In America Analysis

According to the article “When Mosquitoes Were Killers in America” by Lauren Tarshis, its shows many ways how mosquitoes are more than a nuisance to humans, but also to animals. Mosquitoes bite humans infected, and then bite another person who isn't infected with a disease and than both of them have a disease, or when animals have a disease and the mosquito bites them and then comes and bites the human than the human has that same disease and could die. “A mosquito bites someone infected with malaria. A few days later, when the mosquito is read for its next meal, it bites someone else. And the mosquito jabs the new victim's flesh, malaria germs known as Plasmodium enter that person’s blood. In this way, bite by itchy bite, 212 million people are infected with malaria every year. Many live in crowded areas where mosquitoes easily spread the disease from person to person” (Tarshis 13). This means that once a mosquito bites someone with a disease or an animal anyone else or thing could get that …show more content…
Then, in 1947, the U.S. government declared war on mosquitoes. The main weapon? A powerful insecticide called DDT, which kills mosquitoes and other pests. More than 4 million homes in the South were sprayed with DDT. Airplanes dropped it over swamps and other wet areas. SOme people use ot in their homes and even doused there skin with it. DDT worked well-so well that by 1949, malara was no longer a health issue in the U.S. Today, is someone in the U.S. gets malaria, he or she almost certainly got it while visiting another country”(Tarshis 13). This is proving that mosquitoes are much more than pest they became a danger that the U.S. had to drop a insecticide over almost the whole country to get rid of them. In conclusion, the article “When Mosquitos Were Killers IN America” shows many ways that mosquitoes are way more than just nuisance they are a