Word: aegypti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aedes aegypti has indeed changed the course of history more effectively than any other animal, as your excellent "Hanoi Fever" story implied [Oct. 10]. Alexander the Great is only one of the mildly illustrious millions it has felled. But your illustration showed a male mosquito, and it is the female who is more deadly, being the "biter." I recently photographed a nonfatal femme Culex just emerged from its pupa, proboscis and all. After...
What began in North Viet Nam as the Year of the Cock has become the Year of the Mosquito. Aëdes aegypti, a versatile vector best known as the primary carrier of yellow fever, has brought a crippling epidemic of hemorrhaging dengue-like fever to the Hanoi area...
Dandy Walk. The onset of the epidemic coincided with the end of the summer floods. The worst in the country's history, they polluted municipal water supplies, damaged sanitation facilities and dotted the Hanoi area with myriad mud puddles. And even the smallest will do for A. aegypti-"the water in a stalk of bamboo is enough to get them going," says one authority. They are among the most urbanized agents of epidemic: they breed and live in or near human habitation and readily, even preferentially, bite man. To boot, they are all but exclusively daylight and twilight feeders...
...epidemic of dengue for 20 years, but Public Health Service officials are worried that a single infected traveler might reseed the virus in mainland mosquitoes. The usual carrier is the urban and suburban mosquito Aëdes aegypti, also the carrier of yellow fever. It is found in at least nine Southern states, where it breeds in cans, old tires and holes in trees...
...Caribbean flare-up of dengue has hadsome worthwhile effects. It has spurred authorities in both Jamaica and Puerto Rico to step up their neglected anti-mosquito spraying. And Congress has appropriated $3,000,000 as a starter on a $45 million campaign to wipe out Aëdes aegypti completely...