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That overflowing wastebasket in Matthew S-32 is the result of a mice scare. The cleaning lady refused to go near the thing for a week after seeing a rodent leap out of it and leer at her one morning...
Hasamoto's Choice. Probably the greatest misconception about Japanese fighters is the belief that they will never surrender. It is true that when trapped they fight with a burrowing, rodent tenacity, but it is a mistake, say these officers, to credit their stubbornness to fanatic religious beliefs. It is just animal fight. Both on sea and on land, they are capable of giving...
...respect, the plague latent in the U.S. is a greater menace than that of China and medieval Europe. "Rat plague rises and falls within a century and finally flickers out. Wild rodent-sylvatic plague is everlasting and permanent" So said a leading U.S. plague expert. Dr. Karl F. Meyer of the University of California...
...rodents increase, so do rodent epidemics. Nevertheless, epidemics are too erratic to explain the periodic ebb & flow of rodent population. Field mice flourish in dry weather, suffer in wet weather. But mouse cycles recur regardless of weather cycles...
Awareness of rodent cycles also helps prevent diseases among human beings. In Norway, for example, lemming invasions are accompanied by outbreaks of "lemming fever"-a form of tularemia. Vole outbreaks in India stimulate the dread bubonic plague; in Central Europe, food poisoning ("ptomaine poisoning"); in Africa, a fever of men and sheep...