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...Aedes aegypti has indeed changed the course of history more effectively than any other animal, as your excellent "Hanoi Fever" story implied [Oct. 10]. Alexander the Great is only one of the mildly illustrious millions it has felled. But your illustration showed a male mosquito, and it is the female who is more deadly, being the "biter." I recently photographed a nonfatal femme Culex just emerged from its pupa, proboscis and all. After...
...Stock fever has swept Australia, . which is going through the wildest wave of investment speculation in its history. In Melbourne's new 26-story exchange building last week, somber-suited businessmen, workmen in overalls and pig-tailed secretaries jostled each other in the gold-carpeted gallery to watch brokers screaming for 100, 200 and 500 shares of mining and oil companies. One day, trading on the Sydney exchange reached a record of nearly 36 million shares...
...past month, the fever has killed considerably more than 1,000 North Vietnamese, nearly 90% of them between the ages of two and 15. From expressions of concern by the government radio and press, Hanoi watchers infer that the disease has already cut into the North's industrial productivity...
...Singapore was hit in 1960, and Bangkok has undergone another siege this summer. The current disease is a viral variant of dengue (pronounced dengghee), a less virulent malady that has some different symptoms (aching muscles and joints, no hemorrhaging). The affliction is sometimes called "dandy fever"-for the peculiar mincing gait of those whose joints have been affected...
...water, to fill in ruts, potholes and other potential mosquito-breeding sites. Hanoi newspapers are urging the citizenry to "kill mosquitoes and larvae, prevent mosquitoes from biting," and closely supervise "daily sanitation in houses, gardens and streets." There is neither a preventive vaccine nor a specific cure for the fever. A patient's biggest asset is a constitution strong enough to see him through the five or six critical days. Treatment is palliative at best. The most advanced medication suggested by Hanoi authorities is a fermented mixture of green beans, horse-radish and earthworms...