Abstract
In discussing the papers presented at the symposium Dr. Ernest Carroll Faust of Tulane University, New Orleans, said: “While the scourge to human life from the transmission of disease by insects has been greatly reduced and ameliorated since the beginning of the century, bloodsucking insects are still one of the most important sources of human disease, particularly to non-immune populations. As a recent popular writer has expressed it, the stars may shape your destiny, or a mosquito bite may end your troubles and your dreams. We still have with us at one place or another on this earth malignant malaria, yellow fever, dengue, the trypanosomiases, leishmania infections, the rickettsial diseases, the filariases and other scourges to civilization, just as definitely as they existed two thousand years ago.
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