Word: mosquitoe
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...Outside in the street, a tremendous explosion resounded-either an M-79 grenade or a 60-mm. mortar shell. Three of the other newsmen, peering out a door, were wounded by blast fragments. UPI photographer Steve Van Meter asked an old man in a nearby building for some mosquito netting to bandage our wounded. The man shook his head. We offered him 500 piastres. Still no. With that Van Meter brushed the man aside, took the netting. The firefight was over with the big blast. Twenty minutes later, the Tinh Hoi loudspeaker announced that the rest of the newsmen were...
...first described its prevalence and unusual distribution, it attacks children regardless of race, in high-rainfall, equatorial areas of low altitude. The geography of the disease is strikingly similar to that of yellow fever. And yellow fever has long been recognized as a viral infection carried by a mosquito...
...Mack trucks has a capacity for 800 vehicles annually (ranging from municipal garbage trucks to 15-ton freighters), but only 80 have come off the line since last May. Conakry has yet to get a taste of the milk from cows at the Russian-built dairy at Ditinn, where mosquito nets muffle the lowing of the herd. A West German slaughterhouse in Conakry kills no more than one steer a month, though its capacity is 40 tons of beef a day. Even the East German printing plant-once humming with Sékou's propaganda-has been reduced...
Malaria has been sharply curbed by improved drugs and anti-mosquito spraying. Now that schistosomiasis itself can be cured, the next step is to clean up water supplies. Combined cure and prevention might then halt the relentless spread of the fever, which is now close to surpassing malaria as a destroyer of human health in the tropics...
...giant enclave at An Khe, Jeeps and trucks are only driven when absolutely necessary. The division is short of gas, while two huge ocean-going tankers loll in the Saigon River waiting to be unloaded. Last month the marines at Danang ran out of mosquito spray in the midst of a malarial epidemic that has forced the evacuation of 800 infected servicemen: 37,500 gallons were borrowed from other bases. Twice the U.S.S. Kimbro set sail for Viet Nam from the Philippines, only to be ordered back because of lack of dock space for its cargo of rockets, bombs...