On the left here you see the bites by the Dutch malarial mosquito on this person.

(Mosquito buzzing) (Swat)

A mosquito just bit me.

A mosquito just bit me.

African malarial mosquitos use to track us down at night.

I was bitten by a mosquito.

Minnesota's state bird is the mosquito.

We got, later, the mosquito netting.

I got a lot of mosquito bites.

The water tank teems with mosquito larvae.

They control mosquito larvae, among other things.

There you are. We've sent mosquito eggs.

What can we do to the mosquito?

In contrast, the African malarial mosquito had a very strong preference for biting the ankles and feet of this person, and that of course we should have known all along because they're called mosqui toes, you see?

Don't scratch your mosquito bite. It'll get inflamed.

I have mosquito bites all over my arm.

So for the mosquito, it's a dead end.

They might be able to buy mosquito nets.

Once you've got the mosquito in your area, anyone coming into that area with dengue, mosquito will bite them, mosquito will bite somewhere else, somewhere else, somewhere else, and you'll get an epidemic.

The mere sight of a mosquito makes her sick.

NM That's a mosquito wing beat you're hearing. EJ

I was not aware of a mosquito biting my arm.

But of course the most dangerous animal is the mosquito.

It's only the female mosquito that will actually bite you.

This is a high speed camera view of a mosquito.

I'm itchy from mosquito bites. Do you have something for it?

Well, they decided to mosquito proof every house in Northern Alabama.

They feed on other little things. They feed on mosquito larvae.

And the mosquito has killed more humans than wars and plague.

So we've got that. You could call it a mosquito factory.

To communicable diseases, it might be health clinics or mosquito nets.

the mosquito man. But he ran an experiment in people, right?

And let's assume you're bitten by a mosquito that's carrying that virus.

There's no point in just killing the odd mosquito here and there.

Now, malaria's transmitted by a mosquito, and normally if you're infected with malaria, and you're feeling sick, it makes it even easier for the mosquito to bite you.

And the asterisks represent the time at which the mosquito proofing was complete.

The mosquito has killed more humans than any other creature in human history.

In fact, probably adding them all together, the mosquito has killed more humans.

It doesn't really matter. It's the same mosquito, and it's the same disease.

Well we clearly need something that is effective at reducing the mosquito population.

Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the preserved blood from the mosquito, and bingo

If you mosquito proof houses, when people get sick, they're sitting in bed or in mosquito proof hospitals, they're sitting in a hospital bed and the mosquitoes can't get to them.

In the case of malaria, what we'd like to do is mosquito proof houses.

But we have to be careful because malaria the parasite evolves and the mosquito evolves.

We can actually use this to contain outbreaks of mosquito born diseases, of epidemics, right?