Dr. Graham Fry

Now, we've just had a couple of hot days.

We're going to have a couple of cold days coming in and another couple of hot days.

That is not ideal from the mosquito point of view.

Mozzie don't like that.

They like a standard, hot, humid climate.

That's ideal for them.

So people going out to Southeast Asia, you mentioned earlier on, in the rainy season, which is coming up very soon now, that's going to be a much bigger risk than in January, February, March, going to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, those sort of areas, because that's the rainy season.

That's when the mozzies survive the best.

Well, that's one of the big discussions.

Are we just having global warming now or is it something we've had in the past?

And the answer is we've definitely had it in the past.

Mosquitoes were a huge problem in Ireland up to about 100 years ago.

They've got less and less and less over the

20th century into the 21st century.

Are they going to start coming back up again?

Possibly, yeah.

So there's no doubt we had mosquitoes and we had leprosy and all sorts of other conditions as well.

Possibly so.

Now, can I just mention, Jonathan, when I get to heaven, the second person I want to talk to is, why didn't Noah kill the mosquito?

I mean, goodness sake.