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Home remedy myths are as persistent as the mosquitoes

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Anonymous | 2:29 p.m. July 11, 2009

DEET works great.

Pestilence | 2:31 p.m. July 11, 2009

The working remedies are good to know, because thanks to global warming, mosquitoes that carry dengue fever are spreading northward.

wst | 1:27 a.m. July 12, 2009

The value of Purple Martins (birds) was cast into doubt by a study done in 1918?

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