Product Description: Everyone knows that mosquitoes are bloodsuckers. But did you know that some can cast the shadow of death with a bite? They spread malaria and life-threatening fevers through their saliva. Learn about one of the vampires of the animal kingdom.

Product Description: Medical Files examines the science and technology behind some of the most fascinating medical cases and mysteries, from flesh-eating diseases to deadly mosquito bites, and more.

Product Description: Medical Files examines the science and technology behind some of the most fascinating medical cases and mysteries, from flesh-eating diseases to deadly mosquito bites, and more.

An expert on this vexing insect traces the mosquito's origins, its role in history, and its ongoing threat to humankind as the bearer of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, and encephalitis. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

An expert on this vexing insect traces the mosquito's origins, its role in history, and its ongoing threat to humankind as the bearer of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, and encephalitis. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Founded in 1957, the University of Notre Dame's Vector Biology Laboratory has contributed much to fields such as medical entomology and taxonomy. This history of the institution catalogues its scholars and their projects, including pioneering work establishing the infrastructure of genetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a detailed account of the embryology, growth and metamorphosis of mosquitoes, the nutrition of larvae and adults, and egg production by the adult females. Physiological adaptations of larvae to their aquatic environment are also described...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)