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News, discoveries and ... fun

News, discoveries and ... fun.

In the 1970s, a cluster of cases of unexplained severe joint pain and swelling was breaking out in a small three-township area in Connecticut, as a 1976 New York Times article detailed. Fortunately, the mysterious affliction soon came to the attention of a team of Yale University medical researchers headed by rheumatology chief Dr. Stephen E. Malawista, who passed away on Sept. 19 at age 79 in Hamden, Conn.

If you don't like those stinky bug sprays with DEET, but you also don't like being a mosquito buffet, here's a simple, low-tech, no-chemical way to deter those little suckers from your backyard: An electric fan.