Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles an hour, because if you had to brake, you'd skid and turn over. There are that many of them on the road." Not only on the roads but in wheat paddocks, barns and pantries across huge stretches of Victoria and New South Wales, hordes of field mice now form what one farmer calls "a moving carpet." The rampaging rodents, product of a rare combination of a big wheat surplus and optimum ground temperatures for breeding, constitute the worst such plague in Australia since...
...wags joke that they now have the world's only 18,000-hole golf course. Some farmers, their fields chewed to stubble, have been forced to feed their sheep by hand. Set out in barnyards, baited, water-filled drums fill up with as many as 1,000 drowned mice a night. Yet so far not even Victoria's Vermin and Noxious Weeds Destruction Board has come up with a really effective solution. One woman whose supply of the Pill was eaten by mice only half jokingly proposed birth control as a long-range solution. Officials, however, were placing...
...choose to develop the play in that direction. Bobby is a hung-up Greenwich, Connecticut rat. Jebbie exclaims, "I gotta tell you kid, I'm hip to your problems (Greenwich and all that) because I get calls from two-hundred little madras-commuting-blond-Nazi-God-bless-America mice like you every week. I pulled my ass up from New Jersey. That's right. New Jersey. Not Newark either so don't get any smart ideas." Then follow jokes about Montclair, paranoia, penis-envy. On one hand, it must be cunning to hear rats talk this way in an over...
...persuade Hansen's bacillus, the microbe that causes leprosy, to grow in lab animals-a vital step in virtually all infectious-disease research. At the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Shepard reasoned that perhaps the bacilli needed a cool environment like that in the foot pads of mice. Shepard injected bacilli into the pads, and after he had waited patiently for months, they multiplied...
While it has long been known that leprosy is one of the most difficult diseases to catch, nevertheless some people still catch it.-Shepard's footpad test, involving the injection of disease material into mice to see whether bacilli grow out, has enabled U.S. Public Health Service physicians to show that after a few months of treatment with a sulfone drug (Dapsone), most patients are virtually noninfectious. Then they can safely be released from hospitals to live at home with their families and go to work. And it is now possible to determine in a few months what used...