We have an excellent suggestion for our collective hatred today: mosquitos. These little death machines infect 700 million people with disease every year. And that’s just one of the amazing facts in the vintage Medical Examiner (from 2008) brought back to life here. Here’s another sobering statistic: mosquitos kill millions of people every year. One of the most recent was an Aiken County man who died of West Nile a couple of weeks ago. Health officials blamed a mosquito bite for his death. So mosquitos aren’t just an annoyance: they’re potentially lethal. There is some good preventive information we can all benefit from here: