Do mosquitos have a positive purpose for being on the face of this earth?
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Food for bats?
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"Two could whip a dog and four could hold down a man." - Mark Twain They're here for the transmission of diseases, among the more important are malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, encephalitides, filarial worms, and West Nile Virus. Of these, malaria is by far the most important. According to recent data released by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, mosquitoes infect A MINIMUM OF 500 MILLION people with the disease each year, and more than two million -- mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa -- die of it.
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