Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common DiseasesDoane, Rennie Wilbur
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Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
Doane, Rennie Wilbur
Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease
NEWSTEAD, R., DUTTON, J.E., AND TODD, J.L. Insects and Other
Arthropoda Collected in the Congo Free State. _Ann. Trop. Med. &
Parasit._, Vol. 1, No. 1, Feb. 1, 1907, pp. 3-100. An interesting
paper giving notes on many insects that cause or carry disease.
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Inst. of Pub. Health_, 1908. Why Spirochætes should be regarded as
Protozoa. Classification; list of blood-inhabiting forms; relapsing
fevers; transmission by ticks and other Arthropods.
O'CONNELL, M.D. The Oversea Transport of Insect-borne Disease.
_Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg._, XI, 43, Feb. 1, 1908. Refers to article
in same journal (Jan. 15) and points out that malaria is very
likely to be transmitted by mosquitoes in this way.
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disease is transmitted by insects, probably lice.
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61-71. Shows that these parasites may often cause serious diseases
by opening the way for malignant germs.
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whether they belong with bacteria or Protozoa, probably the latter.
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subject.
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Amer. Micro. Soc._, Vol. 27, 1907, pp. 5-20. The various ways in
which animals may produce or carry disease.
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_Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg._, XI, Jan. 15, 1908, pp. 22-23. Points out
the danger of yellow fever, plague and other diseases being borne
overseas by infected insects.
The Society for the Destruction of Vermin. Editorial in _Jour.
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organization of such society and its purposes.
INDEX
Adams, S.H., 132.
Advisory Committee, 146.
Agramonte, Dr. Aristides, 123.
Alimentary canal, fly larvæ in, 49.
Amoeba, 19.
Anopheles,
adults, 91;
eggs, 92;
habits of adults, 94;
larvæ, 78, 79, 93;
pupæ, 93;
resting position, 92;
species in U.S., 92.
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