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Yonder somewhere in the California boonies, an earthquake shakes up a small town and sends a deep fissure straight down the middle of one farmer's property. Out of the depths crawls a strange and sinister variety of insect. These nasty buggers can start fires, attach themselves to humans and, as the police reports put it, "inflict serious damage resulting in death." How they manage to do this and where they come from are matters of the greatest interest to James Parmiter (Bradford Dillman), a slightly out-of-kilter science professor at the local college. He takes to studying...
...large variety of viruses or bacteria or can follow a wide range of other illnesses. But the bugs responsible for the current outbreak of encephalitis are unique. They are "arboviruses," a contraction for arthropod-borne viruses. The arthropod that carries the virus is, in this case, an insect with jointed feet−the common mosquito−that has been particularly numerous and active in large areas of the U.S. this year. Mosquitoes pick up the arboviruses when they bite birds, which usually carry the viruses without being ill themselves, and transmit them when they feast on the blood of their...
Every summer and fall, parts of the U.S. are stricken by outbreaks of encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, caused by insect-borne viruses. But this year's outbreak may prove to be the worst in a decade. Hundreds of suspected cases of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE)* have been reported by health officials in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and New Jersey. The disease has reached epidemic proportions in two other states. In Mississippi, encephalitis has afflicted some 200 people and killed more than 30. In Illinois, the disease has struck more than...
Doctors have tried for years to prevent, or at least reduce, the ravages of St. Louis and other forms of insect-borne encephalitis. But the disease is difficult to treat or eradicate. No effective way has been developed to immunize people against it. Health officials are concentrating on spraying and swamp-drainage programs aimed at cutting down the number of mosquitoes, for the only known way to prevent encephalitis is to eliminate the pesky insects that transmit...
...literature, its uniform stresses making him sensitive to slight variations in meter. And his desire to immerse himself in the moment without guilt about the past or ambition for the future, is no less Chinese. "The most beautiful thing is the concentration. When children see an object like an insect, a butterfly or a fruit, they have complete absorption in that object. And if you can capture that, that is beautiful...