New ideas on mosquito control

Abstract

This is a story of bringing  together a tiny roundworm to eat the entire family of growing mosquitoes and their children in all the bushes, near our abode..  It is a problem worrying the human race for thousands of years  and has never been solved. As the Principal of a medical  college, one day I invited a learned Professor of Zoology of  a  nearby college to discuss with  me how we could  initiate a research work on the control of mosquitoes with psychedelic  or drug  LSD  added to their food in captivity. He gladly dropped in my office  for  this particular subject when I told him that an assistant professor of mine has  successfully killed hundreds of large garden rats with molasses- balls and  Magnesium sulphate ( a severe Purgative) laced  with  tasty  cheese that  killed them with severe  diarrhea and dehydration. My friend heard all this story and suggested  that he had a better idea than all those carried out  world-wide  in the past,  but for want of money and helping men he never could  initiate and carry out this research work. He advised  me to apply to Indian Council of Medical Research for a financial grant. So we jointly prepared a scheme and sent it to Delhi, I.C.M.R., Director  for a suitable grant when I was convinced that his idea was an extra-ordinary one never thought of by any one. And this  I shall discuss here.