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S03E41 - The Real Swamp Monster

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We're joined by mosquito and disease expert Dr. Louisa Messenger of the Las Vegas PARAVEC lab. It turns out that gators and snakes aren't the big danger in a swamp. And this monster isn't constrained to swamps. In fact, it's probably in your own backyard. Mosquito problem in Las Vegas How to fight Mosquitos Dr. Messenger's Lab website Additional Reading: History of antimalarial drugs Modern use of Quinine The Color Mauve History of Malaria Lyle Blackburn's Sinister Swamps (affiliate link) Theodore Sturgeon's IT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The world is filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?

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Human beings have a strange relationship with swamps. For much of history, cultures have viewed swamps as undesirable or even dangerous wastes of

1:24.0

potential farmland. Real estate built on drained swamp land exists around the

1:28.6

world and until the latter third of the 20th century not many tears were shed over the departure of this kind of murky, dank,

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insect and reptile-filled landscape.

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In the United States, our national capital was literally built by draining swamp land.

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And it's a fairly recent thing for enough concerned ecologists to try and get us to realize

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