Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Douglas Davis, a 35-year-old carpenter from Pennsylvania, is living in his aging Scout van at Camp Mad Max because he can't afford a hotel. Thieves have taken his car battery, his radio, his tools, even his Penn State floor mats. His body is covered with infected mosquito bites. On his back, an antibiotic cream covers a patch of ringworm. ; Asked if he has seen a doctor, he says he cured himself by "sanding" down the skin and washing it with Clorox...
...countertops and recycled shopping bags. Even Body Shop trucks are employed as rolling billboards for pithy slogans. Roddick's current favorite, taken from the side of one of her company's lorries: IF YOU THINK YOU'RE TOO SMALL TO HAVE AN IMPACT, TRY GOING TO BED WITH A MOSQUITO...
SCIENCE: The Mosquito Wars...
With the deployment of DDT in 1939, it looked as if final victory over the mosquito might be at hand; and indeed, through the years chemical insecticides took such a toll on mosquito populations that yellow fever and other infections they carried became almost unheard-of in the developed world...
Chemicals also took a toll on mosquito research. "The age of DDT was also the dark age of entomology," says Dan Kline, another of the Mosquito Unit's scientists. "There was no money for basic research. Mosquitoes a problem? Just take some DDT and nuke 'em. Why bother with research when you can do that...