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...radio and sound recording fields were heard from almost en masse. Atomic scientists conveyed their interest, as did numerous industrialists, colleges and universities, foreign scientists, etc. Some wanted to know how to manufacture the ultrasonic siren; others asked whether it could be devoted to such uses as sterilizing insect eggs in flour, the homogenization of chocolate for hand-dipped candies. An invalid wondered whether the instrument would pulverize his kidney stones without damaging him. The Long Island Duck Farmers Association thought it would be ideal for defeathering ducks. Some others who have been heard from to date...
...horror that haunts this valley is a disease called verruga (literal translation: warts). It is transmitted by an almost invisible sandfly (Phlebotomus verrucarum), smaller than a mosquito, which bites only at night. Penetrating the finest netting and seams in clothing, the insect infects its victim with a parasite (Bartonella bacilliformis) that destroys red blood cells, produces a high fever and often kills within a few days...
...G.I.s stay healthy? The doctors' reasons: good food, plenty of water and salt, scientifically designed clothes, insect control, new drugs (e.g., atabrine). Wartime scientific research, which solved many of the problems of tropical living, also debunked a few old notions: that meat-eating in the tropics is bad, that white men cannot do physical labor in the hot season, that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...
...Naval Medical Research Institute made its war-developed insect repellent #448 available to the public. Sprayed, it kills the insects it hits, and chases off newcomers. Rubbed on the skin, it keeps crawlers and biters away for at least eight hours...
...Theodore Christian Schneirla of the New York Museum of Natural History has one absorbing interest in life. An animal psychologist of renown, he would rather study the army ant than any insect he knows. Last week he was back in Manhattan from the Canal Zone with new lore about the most predatory of ants and its life in a society of fierce complexity...