Dr. Tim Weingart
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It's still the animal that kills more human beings on the planet than any other animal to this day, and that's including other humans.
That's Dr. Tim Weingard.
I'm a history professor at Colorado Mason University, also the head coach of the hockey team, being Canadian.
And I wrote the book, The Mosquito, A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.
We like to think we get to make our own history, that we did this as human beings.
And that's not necessarily the case.
The British are very upset that General Washington won't essentially commit to a decisive battle to end the war.
And Washington knows he can't do this because he doesn't have anything.
If he commits to a decisive battle and loses, the revolution's over.
But as long as he can keep an army, however ill-supplied and under-equipped in the field, the British have to defeat and chase this army.
He waits for his political lords, essentially, in the Continental Congress to get some supplies, get some allies, get some weapons, and hopefully get France on board.
This is essentially playing cat and mouse, and it frustrates the British.
So, they change their strategy.
And these soldiers come primarily from northern England and Scotland, these British soldiers.
So there was malaria in England, but these soldiers specifically are recruited from northern England and Scotland, away from the malarial fenlands of England.
So they're not what is called seasoned.
What seasoning is, essentially, the more you suffer, the less you suffer.
Now, I don't suggest this as an inoculation strategy, but generally speaking, the more you contract malaria, the less severe the symptoms are and the less likelihood of dying.
So the American soldiers have been seasoned to their colonial malaria.
They've had malaria.
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