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Dengue is seldom a fatal illness. But it is one of the most painful of infectious diseases, which explains its other name, breakbone fever. About a week after injection of the virus by a biting mosquito, the victim develops a fever, chills, excruciating headache, pain behind the eyeballs, backache, and pain in muscles and joints. Most victims are sure they are going to die-and many want to. The pain and weakness last for weeks. There is no specific medication; the only treatment is aspirin, lots of fluids and bed rest...
Tundra Killer. Berg discovered the sciomyzid's taste for snails quite by accident. While doing research in Alaska on mosquito control, he occasionally dipped sciomyzid larvae from tundra pools. One afternoon he happened to put a single larva into a dish along with five snails. Half an hour later, he had a chilling surprise: "I saw the larva with its head thrust into the opening of a snail shell, its mouth hooks working. When I came back the next morning, the larva had pulled out, but half the soft parts of the snail were gone...
...might be ? is a frequent irritant. Yet despite occasional bickering, Mme. Nhu fiercely defends Diem and the others. "I have never met anyone as human, warmhearted and chivalrous as the Ngo Dinh brothers," she says extravagantly. "The world is not made for them. They would not hurt a mosquito...
...Manitoba to measure cosmic rays, and Harvard Senior David Crane has organized a mobile catering-bartending outfit staffed by fellow undergraduates. Last summer the relatively small student body of Williams (1,121) boasted a clambake caterer in Maine, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a supermarket meatcutter in Maine, a mosquito inspector in New Jersey, a Pinkerton detective in Indiana, a labor union organizer in New York City, a toll collector in Buffalo, a CIA courier in Washington, and a groom for a string of race horses traveling between Maine and Delaware...
...that looks right into hers, makes friends with her family, pops over for dinner daily. But the closer he comes the more distant she be comes. One night at the cinema, overstimulated by Les Nouvelles de Fox Movietone, he manfully attempts to smooch. She brushes him away like a mosquito...