Mosquito Film: The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

Just read the Harper's review of Sonia Shah's newest book. Lots of great info. Interested in reaching out to her about the film project...

http://soniashah.com/

“Human history marches to the beat of what? A big brass band? A choir singing hymns? The lub-dub of the human heart? Sonia Shah’s tour-de-force history of malaria will convince you that the real soundtrack to our collective fate is none of these: it is the syncopated whine-slap, whine-slap of man and mosquito duking it out over the eons.”
-- The New York Times

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Minh_Anh_007January 7, 2020 at 9:44 PM
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ABOUT THE FILM:

"No animal on earth has touched so directly and profoundly the lives of so many human beings. Mosquitoes have felled great leaders, decimated armies, and decided the fates of nations. All this and she is roughly the size and weight of a grape seed."
- Author Michael D'Antonio

One of the deadliest threats to human health is a tiny, blood-sucking vampire less than a quarter inch long. Her bite is small but its impact is tremendous. Although in the last half-century dangerous diseases such as malaria, west nile virus and dengue fever have been mostly restricted to the developing world, globalization, foreclosed homes and climate change guarantee that such confinement is now a thing of the past.

MOSQUITO follows some of the most imaginative warriors in the war against disease as they fight to end a global (and local) crisis that now touches all of our lives. Szabolcs Marka, Luke Alphey and Andrew Githoko are soldiers on the frontlines of this battle. Authors Paul Epstein and Michael D'Antonio try to get the word out to a larger public. The film will show the personal, professional, and ethical challenges they experience in their attempt to control mosquitoes with new technologies, and offer an engaging, funny, character-driven narrative that will broaden and deepen a critical global conversation about how to save lives.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

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