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An artificial lake, nearly dry and partly
filled with rubbish, has become a breeding-ground
for dangerous mosquitoes
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Fig. 1. A lamprey 2
Fig. 2. Sacculina 2
Fig. 3. Trichina spiralis 2
Fig. 4. An external parasite, a bird-louse (Lipeurus ferox) 3
Fig. 5. An internal parasite, a tachina fly (Blepharipeza adusta) 3
Fig. 6. Work of an internal parasite, puss-moth larva parasitized by a small ichneumon fly 3
Fig. 7. Typhoid fever bacilli 20
Fig. 8. Amoeba 20
Fig. 9. Euglina virdis 21
Fig. 10. Spirocheta duttoni 21
Fig. 11. Paramoecium 22
Fig. 12. Vorticella 22
Fig. 13. Pathogenic protozoa; a group of intestinal parasites 22
Fig. 14. Castor-bean tick (Ixodes ricinus) 28
Fig. 15. Texas fever tick 28
Fig. 16. Texas fever tick (Margaropus annulatus) 29
Fig. 17. Amblyomma variegatum 29
Fig. 18. Ornithodoros moubata 36
Fig. 19. The follicle mite (Demodex folliculorum) 36
Fig. 20. Itch-mite (Sarcoptes scabiei) 37
Fig. 21. Harvest-mites or "jiggers" 37
Fig. 22. Horse-fly (Tabanus punctifer) 44
Fig. 23. Stable-fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) 44
Fig. 24. A black-fly (Simulium sp.) 45
Fig. 25. Screw-worm fly (Chrysomyia macellaria) 45
Fig. 26. Blow-fly (Calliphora vomitoria) 45
Fig. 27. Blue-bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) 50
Fig. 28. Flesh-fly (Sarcophaga sp.) 50
Fig. 29. "The little house-fly" (Homalomyia canicularis) 51
Fig. 30. 153
Fig. 109. Human-flea (P. irritans); FEMALE 156
Fig. 110. Mouse-flea (Ctenopsyllus musculi); FEMALE 156
Fig. 111. Trypanosoma gambiense 164
Fig. 112. Tsetse-fly 164

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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