Pestilence: Mosquitoes and the next pandemic We were lucky they had no role in spreading COVID because they re the ultimate pathogen-transmission machines.
By David Lazarus Los Angeles Times July 5, 2021 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Omar Akbari, an associate professor of cell and developmental biology at University of California, San Diego, admits he loses sleep thinking about the next pandemic and how it could be so much worse than COVID-19. When COVID first happened, labs quickly tested to see if it could be borne by mosquitoes, he told me. Thankfully, it wasn t. But imagine if it was.
If so, the global death toll could have been tenfold, a hundredfold worse, Akbari said. Th
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