LETTERS READ INCUBATOR VII: Yellow Fever, Mosquitos, and Monkeys

As a bit of comic relief to the July 15th, 2021 podcast, "Bananas Anyone", Letters Read project director Nancy Sharon Collins puts forth her science fiction theory to her neighbor, microbiology scholar Claiborne Christian, Ph.D., Tulane University, New Orleans. The following snippet was recorded on her deck, during a typical, New Orleans thunderstorm. You will hear the pouring rain. The distinct sound of the rain is an ironic nod to the subject of tomorrow's Letters Read. Image: Scientific illustration of the “Aedes aegypti” mosquito, the primary carrier of the Zika virus. (Illustration by Vichai Malikul, Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History).