Posted on 05/12/2022 10:16:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway
This would have been late 1950s-early 1960s.
I remember it smelled bad, like bug spray always has; but nobody seemed harmed by it or concerned. People back then were more aware of malaria, and probably glad to have the spraying.
Probably malathion.
I would argue that she has killed more people than any other maniac that ever existed.
“a mosquito capable of infecting humans with the deadly diseases of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika”
Really, I think what they mean is the mosquito is capable of migrating these infections from one human (or other mammal) to another. The mosquitos themselves are likely unaffected by the viruses themselves.
So if the infections are not native to the area, how are the mosquitos going to spread them? Wait for one tourist to visit the area with a dengue fever infection, then bite him so they can spread it around???
This would make a Far Side cartoon.
For a second I thought you were suggesting that the oxide or breakdown of copper was a way of preventing this disease or infection. Copper and the greenish result for either air or water, can kill stuff in air conditioning units.
She certainly ranks with such Heroes of Murder as Stalin and Mao.
I’m sure nothing will go wrong. lol
Only the lady skeeters bite, no?
If it was the 1950s it was DDT. And we ran behind the truck getting a nice cooling spray.
Strange. We also turned out normal when grown up.
Well I get sued when they discover I’ve been bitten by one of their GMO mosquitoes over here in NC?
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