July 15-22, 1952
PUBLIC HEALTH: (From «An Athenian’s Notes») The standard of public health in Greece is not indicated by the delays in importing anti-tuberculosis drugs, but by the diseases prevailing in the country. Rabies, typhus and echinococcus, for example, which have been eradicated thanks to the health services in even semicivilized countries, are found in epidemic proportions in Greece. KLIMENTIA VS EMILIA: Kalamata, 14 – A woman identified as Klimentia D. (…) injured Emilia S. (…) in the village of Meligala during a dispute over politics. THE LOCUSTS’ REVENGE: Rhodes, 14 – A strange phenomenon on the island of Nisyros in which the agronomist Mr Angelis and his assistant were attacked by a plague of locusts while trying to eradicate them, has been reported here, arousing sympathy and support for the two scientists. The two men went out into the countryside to fight a locust plague that was laying waste to the fields. They laid out poisoned bran and moved away to observe the results of their work. Suddenly, they were attacked by swarms of thousands of locusts which, having tasted the deadly bait, decided to infect the flesh of their two murderers with it. The two men eventually managed to defend themselves by hiding in a nearby farmhouse.
