The Mosquito Spreading The Zika Virus Is Attracted To Cities, Trash and Human Blood
Aedes aegypti is the dog of the mosquito world. It acts as if it’s man’s best friend.
“It’s been with us for a long time, probably for at least 5,000 years when we started keeping water next to our homes [ideal for laying eggs] and it’s adapted to people,” says Marten Edwards, an entomologist at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. “It loves us. It loves our cities. It loves our blood. It functions very well with us.”
There’s just one problem. This mosquito makes us sick.
Read more about the mosquito here.
Illustration: Matt Twombly for NPR
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The Swedish beauty Ingrid Bergman was one of the top stars of the 1940s (Casablanca, Gaslight, Notorious), but her career in the U.S. derailed in 1949 when she left her husband and daughter for the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Bergman could not work in an American film for seven years, though upon her return, in 1956, she won an Oscar for Anastasia. LIFE’s Gordon Parks was a close friend, and Bergman trusted him to the extent that she invited him to the 1949 shoot for Stromboli— directed by Rossellini, at the time perceived as the villain — where Parks made this haunting portrait.
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