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Doused with DDT. St. Petersburg's problem is twofold. With 25% of its residents aged 65 or older (against a national average of 9%), it is full of people who are susceptible to serious cases of SLE. Many of them also love to feed the birds. even to get them to take seed from their lips. At downtown Mirror Lake last week, old folks were feeding pigeons, house sparrows, mockingbirds and grackles. while laughing gulls, ducks and herons splashed in and out of the water. There, in a half-hour, health workers easily caught 70 mosquitoes (Culex nigripalpus...
...Petersburg, Fla., was an embattled city last week. At night, trucks drove through the palm-lined streets and the stands of scrub pine and palmetto, spewing a chemical fog onto house-and treetops, all the way to the mangrove swamps lining Florida's Gulf coast. Local citizens were fighting, if not on the beaches, at least in the streets and their own backyards, cleaning out every container in which mosquitoes could find enough water to breed. Bird lovers got a stern official warning: stop feeding the birds or putting out water for them...
...late August the number of cases increased until last week there were at least 164 (with 50 proved by laboratory tests) and 13 deaths. Elsewhere in Florida 20 more cases were reported, and a Maryland boy died of encephalitis after a visit to Orlando. 100 miles northeast of St. Petersburg. By then the fever was too high to hide...
Avian Reservoir. The St. Petersburg district had had outbreaks of SLE in 1959 (68 cases) and 1961 (25 cases). The area was known to be seeded with the virus, and a fresh outbreak should have come as no surprise. So far as is known, birds are the main natural reservoir of the virus, which is transmitted from bird to bird, and from bird to man, by mosquitoes. Where St. Petersburg's birds got the virus is uncertain, though Floridians chauvinistically blamed migrants from the tropics. Impartial authorities considered it equally probable that St. Petersburg has by now become...
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