Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extended shallows, which soon will be pounded by the terrible surf of the northeasterly monsoon. Behind the beaches, beyond a fringe of graceful, feathery casuarina trees, lie the swamps-great stinking pestholes which house most of nature's nightmares: crocodiles, pythons, cobras, and the nasty little Anopheles, the mosquito of malaria. Behind the swamps lie jungles which are almost airtight, home of adders, tigers and other Japanophobes...
Malaria, the worst tropical disease of the Western Hemisphere, does not come, as has long been believed, entirely from mosquitoes that breed in swamps. Because he proved that a mosquito that lives not in swamps but in the trees of Trinidad's jungles also carries malaria, a young entomologist, Lloyd Eugene Rozeboom of Johns Hopkins, last week got a $1,000 prize from the American Society of Tropical Medicine at its meeting in St. Louis...
Most successful method of malaria control has been to drain swamps and pour oil on stagnant waters. But on the island of Trinidad, this system does not work. A mosquito of different habits, the Anopheles bellator, was suspected...
...took a long white envelope from his left sock. He handed over photographs and drawings of rifles and a mosquito boat. (Sebold, as impassive as Buster Keaton, thoughtfully turned the photographs toward the camera.) Duquesne, talking about guns and bombs, pantomimed aiming...
...take the itch out of mosquito bites, Dr. William Albert Hoffman of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine recommends dabbing the bites with a piece of cotton moistened with a few drops of chloroform. It is supposed to work best if done while the bites are new. Precaution: keep chloroform away from eyes and mouth-it burns...