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...people who live in temperate countries, vampire bats are colorful items for horror stories. In Latin America they are a too real horror. They carry rabies and transmit it to humans and animals, whose blood they drink. Rabies does not necessarily kill the vampires, and anti-bat measures by humans do not kill enough of them. Last week a Brazilian naturalist, Dr. Augusto Ruschi, 41, was working out a new solution of the vampire problem: biological warfare with a disease that kills bats only...
Dynamite & Gas. Now that rabies is common among vampires, their bloodletting often brings agonizing death. In Trinidad 89 humans have died of bat rabies since 1935. Other countries also list human victims, but the principal damage is done to cattle. In the single Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, vampires killed 50,000 cattle...
...bat rabies spread over Brazil, the government tried desperate countermeasures. It set up 15 centers to produce rabies vaccine, but immunity given by it wore off in a few months. Specially trained bat-killers attacked the bats' home caves with flamethrowers, dynamite and poison gas. They chopped down hollow trees where the bats shelter, but still bat rabies spread...
This play--or rather, misplay--occurred in the home half of the third inning. The Crimson's Kent Hathaway had dropped a fly-ball double into left field and Mouse Kesarjian had walked, when catcher John Davis came to bat. Davis knocked a bounding ball through the middle of the infield, that seemed certain to score...
...moon. A bat whirred by invisibly, black against black. The football green, solid and trustworthy in the daylight, was a black hole now. At the edge of it a small, skinny boy stood staring big-eyed into the darkness. A tree creaked in the night wind. The boy looked wildly over his shoulder. He almost wished that somebody had noticed him slip out, but people hardly ever noticed little Alec. "Come on, Guinness!" he told himself between chattering teeth. "Come on!" He began to run. He ran clear around the football field as fast as his scrubby legs could carry...