"Fort Detrick scientists discovered a Trinidadian who had been infected
with yellow fever in 1954 and had later recovered. They took serum from
the Trinidadian and injected it into monkeys. From the monkeys they
removed infected plasma, into which they dropped mosquito larvae. The
infected mosquitoes were then encouraged to bite laboratory mice and pass
on the disease. This ingenious technique of public health research in
reverse worked. The mice duly contracted yellow fever.
Laboratories were built at Fort Detrick where colonies of the <Aedes
aegyptii> mosquitoes were fed on a diet of syrup and blood. They laid
their eggs on moist paper towels. The eggs would later turn into larvae,
and eventually into a new generation of mosquitoes. The Fort Detrick
laboratories could produce half a million mosquitoes a month, and by the
late fifties a plan had been drawn up for a plant to produce one hundred
and thirty million mosquitoes a month. Once the mosquitoes had been
infected with yellow fever, the Chemical Corps planned to fire them at an
enemy from 'cluster bombs' dropped from aircraft and from the warhead of
the 'Sergeant' missile.
To test the feasibility of this extraordinary weapon, the army needed to
know whether the mosquitoes could be relied upon to bite people. During
1956 they carried out a series of tests in which uninfected female
mosquitoes were released first into a residential area of Savannah,
Georgia, and then dropped from an aircraft over a Florida bombing range.
'Within a day,' according to a secret Chemical Corps report, 'the
mosquitoes had spread a distance of between one and two miles, and bitten
many people.'"
-- A Higher Form of Killing> by Robert
Harris and Jeremy Paxman, Hill and Wang,
New York, 1982, ISBN 0-9080-5471-X, p 162, p 166
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In view of this, one cannot help but wonder if the following explanation
for a mosquito invasion of our own shores is also the work of the spin
doctors.
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"DANGEROUS ASIAN MOSQUITO INVADES FOUR SOUTHERN STATES
by Erik Eckholm
An aggressive, dangerous Asian mosquito has established itself for the
first time in the United States, and health experts fear it will spread
and become a major new carrier of serious diseases in this country, Latin
America and the Caribbean.
Mosquitoes of the species, <Aedes albopictus>, commonly called the Asian
tiger mosquito, were first discovered nine months ago in the Houston area
and have since been found in three other states. Scientists suspect the
insects arrived years earlier aboard shiploads of used tires which are
imported for recapping. The insects breed in standing water in the
discarded tires and other containers.
<snip>
Beyond lamenting the arrival of a new public nuisance, experts foresee
serious potential health problems. Compared with most mosquitoes, the
Asian tigers are unusually efficient transmitters of numerous human
diseases, including dengue fever and several forms of encephalitis.
The danger is further multiplied because of 'the avidity with which they
seek out humans' and their ability to survive in a broad range of climates
and conditions, said Chester G. Moore of the Federal Centers for Disease
Control in Fort Collins, Colo. No cases of disease in the United States
have so far been linked to the Asian tigers so far.
In Asia, the insects live in northern Japan, in tropical zones and in
forests as well as cities. Data from there suggest the mosquitoes could
survive in much of the United States.
<snip>
But the worst health consequences would occur in Latin America and the
Caribbean, Dr. Moore predicted. If the tiger mosquito spreads there,
campaigns against dengue fever would be set back severely and the flexible
intruder might carry yellow fever into the cities from the jungles, where
it is mainly restricted now.
<snip>
Currently, the main mosquito-borne threat in New York and New Jersey is
eastern equine encephalitis, according to Wayne J. Crans of Rutgers
University. The disease has felled dozens of horses in recent years and
appears occasionally in humans, who usually die or suffer brain damage as
a result.
Studies are planned to see whether the Asian tiger can spread the equine
encephalitis virus."
-- New York Times, 5/19/86
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