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With the deployment of DDT in 1939, it looked as if final victory over the mosquito might be at hand; and indeed, through the years chemical insecticides took such a toll on mosquito populations that yellow fever and other infections they carried became almost unheard-of in the developed world...
Chemicals also took a toll on mosquito research. "The age of DDT was also the dark age of entomology," says Dan Kline, another of the Mosquito Unit's scientists. "There was no money for basic research. Mosquitoes a problem? Just take some DDT and nuke 'em. Why bother with research when you can do that...
Eleven years into the epidemic, the battle against aids is going badly. Some new cases may be caused by unknown viruses, the number of stricken women is soaring -- and so is the death toll...
...therefore become a one-way ticket to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. A third of America's homeless are afflicted, as are about 3% of prison inmates and nearly 6% of those in maximum-security facilities (compared with 1% of the general population). The disease takes a mortal toll as well. About 1 in 4 schizophrenics attempts suicide; 1 in 10 succeeds...
Benjamin Mosoetsa lies dead, as his sister grieves, in Boipatong, south of Johannesburg, where 39 black men, women and children were shot and stabbed to death by armed gangs. Killings in other townships near Johannesburg last week brought the week's toll in the continuing political warfare to more than 70 dead. Residents blamed the killings on supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party, main rival of the African National Congress...