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Meanwhile, the helicopter crews fought the fly itself, flew more than 300 missions in their U.S.-made Bell 47Gs. Repeatedly, they sprayed breeding sites with two powerful insecticides: lindamul, to coat the river and kill the larvae; lindane, to coat the foliage and kill the adult flies. The trick was to hedgehop the dense areas so closely that the insecticide would be blasted to the ground by the downwash from the rotors, would then boil up to saturate the underside of the foliage...
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