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LONDON -- Royal Air Force Whirl-winds attacked the German airfield at Maupertus, France, this afternoon, the Air Ministry announced, and Mosquito bombers raided factories at Hendelo, Holland, and near Liege, Belgium. Escorting Spitfires destroyed one enemy fighter. No British planes were missing...
High over the capital of the Reich droned planes of the R.A.F. Swift, light Mosquito bombers, in the first daytime raid on Berlin, were dodging ack-ack, fighting off the few fighters of the astonished Luftwaffe and raining 500-lb. bombs on a now noisy and exploding city...
Malaria is fought by fighting mosquitoes or by interrupting the plasmodia life-cycle at some point. Men use old-fashioned mosquito nets, oil on mosquito-breeding water, citronella to keep from getting the dangerous mosquito bites. In some parts of India the U.S. Army does not employ native labor lest the mosquitoes pick up plasmodia from their blood. Antimalarial chemicals can kill sexual forms of the protozoa in a patient's blood, prevent a mosquito from carrying his infection to others. No known chemical kills plasmodia in the form mosquitoes deliver to man. Chemicals can get them after they...
...plasmodia in the human blood stream-the forms which produce the shivering, sweating and fever. Quinine also destroys the sexual forms of all but P. falciparum, which means that even after he is "cured" by quinine a patient with malignant tertian malaria can give the protozoa to any suitable mosquito...
...treatment is taken, protozoa may hide out in tissues like the liver or spleen, pop up to plague a "cured" man months or years afterwards; and a patient who succeeds in becoming completely free of the parasites has no true immunity, is liable to reinfection if an infected mosquito bites him. And there are always some mosquitoes with malarial stomach ulcers threatening the human race in the tropics...