World Mosquito Day 2020
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I remember the local governments enacting fogging programs in the neighborhoods with trucks carrying high efficiency foggers that rode through the streets to the delight of me and the other urchins.
I really never gave the possibility of toxicity or consequences a single thought.
There were areas where the birds Purple Martins and various bats would fly though the air devouring these blood suckers with wild abandon and indeed, the problem grew less the older I became ...
Most likely due to that propensity I developed for being indoors writing code and pursuing a general couch potato lifestyle.
Throughout the years I learned of the various vectors that included the mosquito and read of disease processes and their intermediaries as a facet of my pursuit of all things medical.
Unfortunately, when I abandoned the pursuit of medical knowledge becoming more a student of various curiosa I stopped a lot of that technical reading which could have added to who I am presently.
Today we have another World Mosquito Day held under the auspices of The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
It is a yearly thing held each August 20 to commemorate one Sir Ronald Ross the British physician who discovered that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.
That vector has been known since 1897 and it was Sir Ronald Ross himself who suggested that the day become known as as World Mosquito Day.
The day has been observed and enjoyed participation since around the 1930s.