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...those who would like to use DDT but are afraid of being poisoned by it, the current Mosquito News (published by the American Mosquito Control Association) has a word of reassurance. According to Lieut. Commander William J. Perry and Lieut. Leonard J. Bodenlos of the Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, DDT is practically harmless to humans who get it on their skins or breathe it into their lungs...
...Buddhist monk may not preach until the congregation asks him to. He usually asks that they gain bunya by agreeing (for one day, not for life) to obey five commandments: 1) thou shalt not kill anything, not even the mosquito that bites you, 2) nor steal, 3) nor lie, 4) nor commit adultery, 5) nor take intoxicating drinks. Many Siamese strike a balance between bunya and bapa by agreeing to observe commandments 4 and 5 only on alternate days...
...sultry evenings next summer, some radio stations, just for the stunt, may broadcast the mating song of the female mosquito. If Dr. Morton C. Kahn of Cornell University Medical College had his way, each tuned-in radio would be equipped for the occasion with an electric grill to snuff out the lives of male mosquitoes attracted by the siren call. Dr. Kahn's experiment worked successfully in Cuba's malarial swamps (TIME, Oct. 11, 1948), but at that time the electrified nets surrounding the loudspeakers were charged with dangerous voltage. Says Dr. Kahn: "Our problem...
Last week busy salesmen, speaking a guttural Spanish, were showing just such a machete to Colombian hardware dealers. It was the German Mosquito-brand machete, and its agents said that they could deliver it for $2 a dozen less than any U.S. knife. A standard Collins machete, made in Collinsville, Conn., costs $14 a dozen, and does not always offer the prized (though nonessential) nickel finish...
...would be more than a century before the mosquito Aëdes aegypti was pinned down by Walter Reed as the carrier of yellow fever. But even many of Rush's medical contemporaries knew that his cure was fantastically wrong. Yet diligent Dr. Rush was soon prescribing it for everyone who became ill from whatever cause, soon came to believe that all fevers were one fever and that one yellow fever. There can be no doubt that Rush killed many sufferers with his stupendous purges, and with bloodletting that often took more than half the patient's blood...