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Word: albimanus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Morton C. Kahn of Cornell University Medical College reported that the dirty trick has been played, and that it works fine. Dr. Kahn, unlike Entomologist Hyslop (see below), is fiercely anti-insect. He went to Cuba and made a phonograph record of the song of a female Anopheles albimanus (a malaria carrier). Then he put a powerful loudspeaker in a buzzing Cuban swamp and surrounded it by a deadly electrified screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Siren's Song | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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