Episode 281: Starving for Darkness #34 - Does Light Pollution Drive Disease Transmission?

Get A Grip On Lighting Podcast

English - December 08, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Dr. Meredith Kernbach is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg in the lab of Dr. Mya Breitbart. For her doctoral dissertation, she studied how light pollution may affect zoonotic disease dynamics, specifically West Nile virus in House sparrows. Dr. Kernbach has found that even low light levels have allowed sparrows to hold the disease longer which means more mosquitos acquire it. And you can guess what that means for us. Turn off your lights!