The Mosquito War Author:V. A. MacAlister No Americans cared about malaria. — Why should they? They didn't get it. Americans didn't know or care about the West Nile virus before it showed up in America--but a dozen fatalities on good old American soil, and they were all but mobilizing the Air Force to spray for mosquitoes. — Americans would not care about malaria until their own children... more » woke screaming with the fever, until their own people started dying. Americans did not care about anything until it was a threat to themselves and their way of life.
Well then . . . a threat could be arranged.
Crooked pharmaceutical companies, a CIA plot gone horribly awry, a terrorist weapon that comes in a very small package, and a grief-stricken scientist determined to make America pay for its indifference to the suffering in Third World countries all combine to create the fast-paced thriller that is The Mosquito War.« less