Crossword-Solution: STEGOMYIA
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECZEAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STEGOMYIA (5)
Now, improved sanitation and the knowledge that the yellow death is carried by the Stegomyia mosquito, with the precautionary methods suggested by that knowledge, have almost entirely eliminated yellow fever from the West India islands; but in Marryat and Scott's time to be ordered to the West Indies was looked upon as equivalent to a death sentence.
That no systematic effort to exterminate mosquitoes has ever been made in Bermuda is to me incomprehensible, for these mosquitoes are all of the Stegomyia, or yellow-fever-carrying variety.
New Orleans, by the way, having executed a triumphant massacre of the yellow fever mosquito (stegomyia) is now undertaking to rid itself of all the other varieties.
Much later another species, _Stegomyia calopus_, just as annoying and much more dangerous was introduced and has also become very troublesome.
The virus is conveyed from one patient to another by the yellow fever mosquito, _Stegomyia calopus_, and in no other way except by experimental injections.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).