Word: aegypti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they performed an autoosy on a Panama Canal construction worker in 1905. "It's the last case of yellow fever you'll ever see. There'll be no more deaths from this cause in Panama." So thoroughly had General Gorgas stamped out Aëdes aegypti mosquitoes and the fever they carry, that his prediction lasted for about 44 years...
...species were studied: Aëdes aegypti (which carries yellow fever) and Anopheles quadrimaculatus (malaria). Aëdes males responded best to a mating call of 350-750 vibrations per second; Anopheles preferred a lower range (320-480). In spite of overlapping of ranges, no male made passes at a female of the wrong species. The Army's conclusion: a female mosquito must have other attractions than...
Except for the shrill whine of their wings, most varieties make no sound audible to man. But the Cornell researchers caged four of the peskiest species-Anopheles quadrimaculatus (malaria), Aedes aegypti (yellow fever), Aedes albopictus (dengue) and Culex pipiens (New Jersey) -and confronted them with a microphone and high-powered amplifier. A surprising variety of noises, resembling bird calls, emerged. Mosquitoes, it turned out, have voices in the middle ranges of human hearing (frequencies of 250 to 1,500 cycles per second). Females bellow; male voices are thin and high-pitched...
...field." After Florence Nightingale came other medical heroes. In 1900, a brave band of doctors and volunteers in Cuba, headed by Dr. Walter Reed, allowed themselves to be bitten by infected mosquitoes, proved Dr. Carlos Finlay's contention (announced in 1881) that yellow fever was carried by Aedes aegypti. A few years later, by draining and oiling swamps, Dr. William Crawford Gorgas rid Panama of yellow fever, reduced malaria, made possible the building of the Canal...