European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse By Home a. Cab staff Wilder each Spring the american Man emerges from his snug cocoon by theft Renilde removes the double Glass storm panes from his expensive combination win Dows slides the screen sections into place and Heads for the feral terrors of Misback Yard or the first fairly warm Day. Al he stands by his barbeque Grill proudly watching Choice sirloin Char to Ajet Black he soon finds himself assailed by Lite in the wild easy any to thei slings and St Ngn of outrageous insect and a la write subject for mastication by everything from ticks to terriers. And it uns the huge monsters of the animal kingdom that cause the major havoc. Elephants. For instance an afraid it uni Nee lice mosquitoes and omit Terother Uny beings could no Cansev totem. Roan is just another jumbo re is ring and biting of these insect the a produce malaria yellow fever to plague Dengue and a lot of others Haven t even been named worldwide death toll caused by insects is so staggering has never been accurately son think that insect induced total lev a e copyrighted ""f,.troplct Northern cities in the us. Have sunday 1�63 reported an upsurge of parasitic disease est recent years. According to the Amerl. Can medical association much of this to the flood of immigrants from the Caribbean and the annual visit of some3 million americans to foreign countries. There Are also several insect borne Dis eases native to the temperate Cone. Sleep ing sickness encephalitis caused near panic in Southern new Jersey in 1888. A rare variety of the state s notorious mos Quito population was found to be spread ing the wer 2,437 reported cases of sleep ing sickness in the United states in 1959.a figure that May be seriously incomplete according to health potentially fatal disease found in much of the United states is Rocky Moun Tain spotted fever several types of ticks Are known to be carriers. Including the variety your pet Pooch can bring into the House. The ticks inject the fever carrying organisms into the body while enjoying the special Blue plate dished out with the victim s now a few words about snakes. Actually the slithering reptiles Are quite re tiring. They really want no pan of Man. Nonetheless some woo americans Are bit ten each year by snakes that were lust too slow or too sleepy to get out of their Way in those bitten about 90 die each year. Most of the victims Are children. One authority insists that Shock draught about by fear is responsible for More deaths than the an times when snakebite does t do the reptile any Good either. There s the classic Story of the cobra that bit its Han Dler. The handler recovered but the Snake died. Which should prove something poisonous spiders have venom that is far stronger than a Snake but they have a rough time killing anyone they just Don thave enough of the venom to do much harm to a healthy it comes to lethal output of Poison a group of common bugs of the wins the flannel bicycle. These Are honeybees wasps hornets yellow jackets ants Etc. The Normal reaction to these stings is a burning itch. But for some people a few stings can be fatal according to or. W. W. Bauer director emeritus of health education of the Ama it the stars and stapes in t the Poison that does the killing lathes cases. Rather proteins contained in the venom set up an allergic reaction. Justine sting can sensitise some Persona and a subsequent sting even months later May trigger asthma Shock or death. Man s Best Friend probably delivers the most expensive bite of a then Are some 39 million dogs in the United state today and according to government figure some 600,000 persons Are bitten annually. Thess. Public health service says americans Shell out about 3 million each year Tor dog bite treatment according to us. Army health officials snakes and insects an not the problem in Europe that they an in the United states. But the female an Ophelene Mosquito i present As is the Louse. The bite of the former can produce malaria while the Tat Ter s claim to 111 Fame is typhus wasps honeybees ants and hornets an at course found almost everywhere so what does a person protect him self we might exterminate the animal kingdom but then we d All starve to real answer is to be Alert to the Dan Gers of a cruel world and. In ease of mis Hap make use of the excellent medical counter Casuras available. A speedy visit to a doctor is always the Best antidote. Then is another answer. The foolproof defense against the animal kingdom is a sealed room. Yet according to medical authorities the jests and dangers of the out doors an As nothing compared to the con sequences of a sedentary existence. Please pass the Citronella. 11
