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Want To Donate Blood? This Gal's Mosquito Bait
By JERRY THOMAS (Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
No one deserves the title of "human pin cushion" more than Barbara Erickson, Garfield, Utah graduate student. Every day she puts her arm into a wire cage filled with mosquitoes and allows them to feed.
"Someone has to feed them," Miss Erickson said. "No one wants to volunteer so each night I'm dinner for my pets. A study of a certain life phase of mosquitoes is my research project, in entomology. I spend about two hours each night on research here in the lab."
No Yellow Fever Danger Barbara pointed to a cage swarming with mosquitoes.
The lab is a brick building below Flint Hall next to the greenhouses. One of the rooms has been given over entirely to the study of mosquitoes.
"These are 'Aedes aegypti.' They are quite notorious because they carry yellow fever virus. No, I'm not exposing myself to yellow fever when I let them feed on fever when I let them feed on my arm. These mosquitoes are from a laboratory and haven't been exposed to the virus."
Monday, March 19. 1956. University Daily Kansan
The yellow fever mosquito is common in tropical and subtropical zones except in Japan, New Zealand, and some of the smaller Pacific islands. It presumably originated in Africa and has been spread by commerce. Although common in warmer zones, it has been found as far north as Canada and as far south as Chile. New York and Philadelphia had epidemics around 1900.
"The yellow fever mosquitoes' favorite breeding places are in artificial rain water containers such as tin cans, cisterns, or rain barrels." Miss Erickson explained. "They prefer to feed on man rather than any other animal.
The egg stage is the one I'm interested in". Miss Erickson said. "Near the hatching point eggs become temporarily dormant. It is believed that eggs at this stage may more succeed than those at a mere temperature. Before they, may also be easier for man to exterminate artificially during this stage.
FEMALE NEEDS WHEN:
"Nature has a reason for this. The female needs something that man has in his blood that animals don't have. They don't usually lay viable eggs if they can't have human blood at one feeding."
"The male mosquitoes don't need blood, just the females. That's what I like about them. They're so human." Barbara laughed.
Female Needs Man's Blood
"What I want to learn is if the dormant stage is at the same time in all eggs and if it is constant in more than one species.
"I'm not trying to be selfish with my project, though. Anyone who
wants to donate a little time and blood is welcome to do so. I'll make an appointment for them with my pets. They might enjoy the menu change."
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KU Austrians In Celebration
Austria celebrated her first year of independence Friday, and the Austrian students at KU celebrated it in a stricly Viennese fashion.
The Jayhawk Room of the Student Union was the scene of the birthday party. Josef Steidl, Vienna graduate student, spoke on Austria's recent history. He compared the country to a heart which had an attack and which had four "doctors", Russia, France, England and the U. S. working on the four chambers.
Steidl also cited the three important events in Austrian history during the past year—gaining of independence, entry into the U.N., and withdrawal of all occupancy troops.
"One of the 'doctors' kept giving shots, two of them did nothing, and the other one cut away at the heart, taking big pieces from it all the time," he said.
The waltz began with a grand march or polonaise which led into the waltz proper, danced in a circle.
Movies depicting Austrian music, theater, industry, summer and winter sports and student life were shown.
The climax of the celebration was the performance of the Viennese waltz by 16 couples dressed in the typical ball costume—white formalms and black evening suits.
After the opening dance, everyone joined in, and the music ranged from slow fox trot to jitterbug.
Hubert Reisner, Vienna graduate student was master of ceremonies.
Two former University of Kansas students have recent been graduated from the basic infantry officer course at Ft. Benning, Ga. Second Lt. Robert R. Davis, Kansas City, Mo., and Second Lt. Kenneth L. Beardsley of Russel received their commissions through the KU Army ROTC in August 1955.
Two Grads Finish Army School
Cherokee Indian chief Stand Watie, the last Confederate officer to surrender at the end of the Civil War, is buried in a cemetery near Grove, Okla.
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