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74 The Deadly Nuisance
ful bugle.”The creature he was
her一only the females be
we barricade ourselves behind screens, invest in
ec
ns when We inevitably get bitten. But for G
an inconvenience. It is als0 讓
D. H. Lawrence assailed it
speaking of was the mosquito-
merely a summertime nuisance
insect repellen and finally apply lotio
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ecognized as mofe tha
turies the mosquito bas beenr
carrier ofsome ofthe worlds deadliesr disease:
As a disease transmittep the mosquito has 1
the 人ver and chills of malaria. Although the United States an eloped
nations have now either eradicated qr significantly coptreled this diseasey_imalaria
stilL afflicts_ more than 150 million people in the tropics killing more thana million
children a year in Africa alone.
Yellow fever is anorher disease carried by mosquitoes. has been brought under
control in Niorth America, so we tend to think ofit as an exotic disease. But though
itis now confined to Africa and South America, it retains 1ts deadly poWer
Encephalitis, which can cause brain damage Or death, is one mosquItO-DOID
human disease that still appears in the United States. Gormnmnon birds carry this
ease too, but its the pesky mosquito that transmits it to people. Most ofthe
yowr risk of contracting encephalitis is minimal, butithe chances increase When
id insect repellent ma
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been most frequently associated
mosquito population swells. So rermnernber, Screens
tection from much more than a mere nuisance。
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