“I Would Not Eat It With a Fly…”
Filed under: Medicine
I was puzzled. Someone ended up on Polite Dissent looking for a Dr. Seuss poster about malaria. A tropical disease…and a children’s book author. This seemed preposterous, yet somehow intriguing. I did a little research and it turns out that Dr. Seuss did write an educational piece about malaria for the U.S. Army during World War II.
This is Ann…she drinks blood.
Her full name is Anopheles Mosquito
and she’s dying to meet you!
The classic Dr. Seuss rhyme scheme is missing, but the whimsy of the piece and the art are unmistakably his. The information is a little dated (it is sixty years old, after all), but it’s still a fascinating read.
Courtesy of the USDA’s Diptera Site (”Information About the World’s Flies”), I bring you Ann by Dr. Seuss
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