Word: mosquitoe
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...latest estimates, two-fifths of the world's 2.6 billion people are subject to the disease; each year 200 million suffer from malaria, and 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 die of it. In the 60 years since the discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, men of medicine have had periodic fevers of hope about wiping out malaria-with the old drug quinine, with new drugs such as quinacrine, or with mosquito-killing DDT. But malaria proved to be an unexpectedly formidable...
...tiny, disease-causing parasite, conveyed from mosquito to men and back again, has such an incredibly complicated life cycle that no one drug can kill its various forms, lodged in hideouts in different parts of the body. Area spraying (from Airplanes or trucks) is expensive, inefficient and may be self-defeating: some of the Anopheles develop resistance to DDT, thereafter thrive in its presence...
...this detail of mosquito behavior that the World Health Organization and other international bodies, plus 60 governments, are now basing a $500 million blitz campaign to wipe malaria off the world's disease map within ten years...
...Lord is a thoroughly professional organization, superbly run on a shoestring by Bondurant and Maintenance Chief Lester Bancroft, 31, a veteran of Continental Airlines. Planes are constantly monitored over war-surplus radio equipment, must report every 15 minutes, are required to stay down after dark. Each man packs a mosquito net, air mattress and survival rations, is reminded in case he runs out of food to "eat what monkeys eat." "Fact is." says Maintenance Boss Bancroft, "we never had a serious accident. We feel the Lord is with...
...bumblebees for years and came to the conclusion that they should not be able to fly at all. Dr. Hocking is not much more impressed by the flying abilities of his pets. They are good at control and maneuverability, but they waste fuel. The maximum fuel efficiency of a mosquito is only .03%. Most insects fly much slower than they appear to. Top speed for horseflies is 14.8 m.p.h., far below the speed of horses. Dragonflies are insect speed champs, flying at more than 40 m.p.h...