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Primitivism and progress, magic and machinery, go hand in hand in Le Beige. A government helicopter sprays the town with DDT to keep away mosquitoes, but many of the Negroes put far more faith in "charms." There are swimming pools, tennis courts and night schools, but many of those who use them still believe in witchcraft...
Most recent outbreaks of yellow fever in the Americas have been spread by native, jungle-dwelling mosquitoes that cannot be wiped out with DDT. The fever has hit mostly jungle-dwelling people, who cannot all be vaccinated (because the vaccine cannot stand heat, and refrigeration is impossible in the wilds of Central America). But last year's outbreak in Trinidad showed how easily the disease can leap from jungle to town. Army medics point out that the southern U.S., swarming with Aêdes aegypti and unvaccinated people, would be a prime target for bacteriological warfare with yellow-fever...
...marched into Poland. In the metals division, new plants made fuel tanks for planes, periscope tubes for submarines, 60 different types of ammunition. Other divisions boosted production, and I.C.I.'s researchers added their bit with such things as Gamma Benzene Hexachloride, a highly effective insecticide considered better than DDT, and Paludrine, a quinine substitute considered more effective than atabrine...
...pilgrims swarmed into the nearby city of Allahabad (pop. 260,000) on 200 special trains, rattle-clatter bicycles, on foot and upon the backs of coolies and stronger relatives. The government had spent $2,000,000 and many months of careful planning on safe roads, pontoon bridges and DDT. They also mustered 40,000 troops, police, Boy Scouts and volunteer workers to insure that no harm should come to the faithful. But when the holy men and the first procession headed back from the confluence, they were confronted by tens of thousands of other pilgrims, surging...
...ordinary housefly is giving a lot of trouble. In most places, said Entomologist Ralph B. March, "wild housefly" populations have built up such an immunity that most are not harmed by DDT and other standard insecticides...