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Malaria. Two million people die yearly from malaria. In the British Empire the yearly loss from malarial deaths and incapacities is about $300,000,000. A mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus (southern U. S.) carries the disease fully 1½ miles from its breeding place in stagnant waters. These breeding spots must be cleaned up, the Board taught 12 states here. It explained the same in Porto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Palestine, the Philippines, Hayti, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ceylon...
...reports about his active participation in Congressional campaigns this fall (in behalf of Senator Butler of Massachusetts or any other Republican) should be regarded as purely speculative; that Senator Wadsworth of New York is coming to visit him this summer; that the Adirondacks are a delightful spot; that the mosquito ravages had been exaggerated. The gentlemen of the press were impressed by the tan and the high spirits of the President...
...taking a machine-gun nest single-handed declared that he sallied out because he was afraid of lightning-a thunderstorm had made him too nervous to stay in his trench. But the 75 U. S. soldiers who, in the Philippines, voluntarily submitted to the bite of the yellow fever mosquito to find out whether this insect also carried dengue fever, had no such excuse. Their story was told last week in the report of Major General Ireland, Surgeon General of the Army...
Dengue fever is a scourge of hot climates. When, five years ago, it swept across the southern states from Texas to Georgia, 2,000,000 cases were reported. It is always prevalent in the Philippines. Could dengue be carried by the Aedes egypti, the mosquito against whose whining depredations Dr. Walter S. Reed won his famous "yellow fever victory" a quarter of a century ago? Medical officers asked, like Dr. Reed, for volunteers; 75 soldiers sent in their names, were exposed to the mosquito, developed dengue. That was a year ago. Now, as a result of that experiment, dengue cases...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...