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Bill Nelson: “If you think of the building of the Panama Canal, mosquitoes transmitted malaria. So mosquitoes are a vector which…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2016
If you think of the building of the Panama Canal, mosquitoes transmitted malaria. So mosquitoes are a vector which transmits a lot of diseases. This strain of mosquito can lay its larvae in stagnant water contained in something as small as a bottle cap.
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida
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Jul 12, 2016

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