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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Crocodile who wrote (49793)5/4/2000 3:32:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
I take it, you being Canadian, that you have never had malaria. The widespread spraying of DDT throughout the tropics and semitropics played a major role in eliminating or reducing malaria in much of the world. In parts of the US southern states, much of the population had malaria. I remember people -- children -- experiencing attacks. It is said that much of the population explosion in the 50's came from malaria control. Malaria is coming back into prominence in some of the tropics -- parts of Africa. We need effective ways of controlling many insect pests. I lie still at night I try to home in on whining mosquitoes, and then hit myself viciously on the ear with an open hand. I do this several times. It either kills the mosquito or knocks me out.
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