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THE recent researches of bacteriologists into the rôle played by insects as carriers of infection, and the hunt after microbes to locate their natural habitat, is a necessary procedure before it becomes possible to enter on a scientific crusade against them. In those diseases which may be caused by infection carried by insects, it is a more hopeful task to deal with the insects which we can see, than to deal with the microbe which lurks unseen and unheeded. At the same time, it is an uncomfortable thought that insects which we have regarded as undesirable but harmless may be the cause of a serious illness.
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S., C. Insects as Carriers of Disease 1 . Nature 61, 153–154 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061153a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/061153a0