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THE discovery of the role of insects in the transmission of human and animal diseases is one of the most striking achievements of medical science during the last twenty-five years. Filariasis, Texas fever, nagana, malaria, sleeping sickness, yellow fever, dengue, sandfly fever, relapsing fever, plague, typhus, and many other diseases of the lower animals, have been shown to be transmissible by blood-sucking insects—mosquitoes, ticks, tsetse flies, fleas, or lice, as the case may be. The pioneers in this line of inquiry were Manson, Smith and Kilborne, Bruce and Ross.
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House-Flies as Carriers of Disease . Nature 95, 289–292 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095289a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095289a0