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   ocr: 15 OF Giant CENTURY, THE I I I AMERICAN MosquitoModel AT THE TURN THE Museum of Natural History's Giant Mosquito Model played an active role in public health education. In the late 1880s and early 1900s, malaria, yellow fever, and other insect-spread diseases were serious health threats in the New York metropolitan area. This wax model of an Anopheles mosquito, seventy-tive times life-size, was created at the Museum by B. E. Dahl- gren, Curator of Arts and Preparation, to inform the public in the New York City area about a dangerous outbreak of malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, and ...