Parts of Canada are suffering a worse than usual mosquito infestation right now. And in case you’re wondering, no, they are not Bill Gates’ bio-engineered mosquitoes from South America. They are the home-grown variety. But the pesky critters absolutely do not need to be there, ruining everyone’s summer. We have known since 1915 what causes—or rather allows—mosquito infestations. An article explaining how to eliminate them safely and naturally, was published that year in Scientific American. But as so often happens, the medical mafia managed to get the cure written out of all the public health textbooks. Here is the amazing forgotten story.
Mitchell's Lake, San Antonio Texas
Spanish and Mexican farmers lived in little cabins near the shores of the lake. Prior to 1911, mosquitoes bred in such numbers as actually to drive the men from the work of irrigating their crops at night, and forced them to let their crops go to ruin. At times the mosquitoes nearly covered the bodies of the work animals, which in desperation would break through the barbed wire fence to reach the higher ground.
Hardly a family escaped the malarial infection. There had been for several years from two to four deaths annually from malaria on these lands.
Dr. Charles Campbell: Bats, Mosquitoes and Dollars
So, you might ask, what happened in 1911 to change this? To give you a clue, let’s read another extract from the same book.
About five miles from the City of San Antonio in a westerly direction is a farm irrigated by an elevated wooden tank and windmill, and also a big earthen tank holding a large amount of standing water. Scattered about the farm were many one-inch leaky faucets creating as many little pools of stagnant water. Each of these large tanks and the many little pools formed ideal mosquito-breeding places; but in them there were also bred thousands of dragon flies of many varieties. These could be seen disporting themselves all day long.
During the years of 1906 and 1907, this farm was tenanted by a widower and his two little girls, aged 12 and 15 years respectively, and in the summer they slept on cots on the galleries of the house without even thinking of mosquitoes, mosquito bars, or screens, for they never heard the singing of a mosquito about the place. In the early part of 1908, a portion of this farm was rented to a tenant whose family consisted of himself, his wife, and four grown children. A very high barn on the place was renovated by the new tenants, and the lower floor was converted into living rooms. One evening in the early spring, noticing that a large number of bats were coming out from under the roof of the barn, the tenant and his family proceeded to kill the bats, and prided themselves on having destroyed "over two washtubfulls of the pesky critters." Soon afterwards, the old widower and his little girls found they could not sleep as formerly on the open galleries, as the place was swarming with mosquitoes; and his children and those of the new tenant were soon ill with a severe type of malarial fever. The mosquitoes came only at night, beginning with sundown. It is plainly evident that the dragon flies held down the diurnal mosquitoes during the day, but the destruction of all of the bats had left the night mosquitoes unmolested, hence the malarial infection naturally followed.
As mosquitoes are the chief article of diet of bats, particularly the nocturnal varieties which convey malaria, these animals must be reckoned as the arch enemy of the insect.
Dr Charles Campbell’s work on bats was published in 1915 in Scientific American. He studied bats for many years and conducted scientific experiments showing that in a single night, a bat could consume more than 3,000 mosquitoes.
We have seen how and under what conditions the weight of one hundred mosquitoes was ascertained, and that it amounts to 2/5 of a grain. It follows, then, that the fifteen grains [of food consumed per night] represent the weight of 3,750 mosquitoes, consumed by one bat in one night. (Conservative estimate.)
At great expense to himself, Dr Campbell had bat towers built at San Antonio, to encourage the bat population.
When malaria was found to be eradicated from the San Antonio area thanks to encouraging the bat population, the city council passed a resolution protecting bats within the city. News of the success spread all over the world, including Mediterranean areas such as Greece and Italy where malaria was a substantial public health problem. Campbell was nominated for a Nobel Prize.
So, where are the bat roosts now?
Campbell’s municipal bat roost no longer stands. A wave of rabies hysteria in the 1950s gripped Texas, and bats were taken off the State's protected species list.
Oddly enough, none of the rabies cases that caused the hysteria appeared to be from bat bites, as you can gather from this account of the history of rabies in Texas. Almost all the cases were from dog bites.
I reported in my last article that “science” is a game, and that it can (and has) been used to manufacture evidence. Take a look at the “research” which pinned the blame for dog bite rabies on bats: Wildlife rabies in Texas (1955)
These researchers claimed that they “found the rabies virus” in bats. The sole basis for blaming dog bite rabies on bats, was that a dog or fox might catch rabies by being bitten by a bat while eating it.
My earlier article Rabies, Snakes and the Ghost Virus explains the fraudulent nature of virology. It simply isn’t possible to “find a rabies virus”. No-one has ever seen a virus in living tissue, even with the most powerful microscope. Put this story together with all the other cases where big business has suppressed natural cures in favour of commercial interests, and we might perhaps begin to link this anti-bat propaganda with the growing use of DDT insecticide in the 1950s.
So, dear Canadian brothers and sisters, is it perhaps time to start building bat houses to get rid of your pesky mozzies?
Click: How to build a bat house
Download a free pdf of Dr Charles Campbell’s book describing all the wonderful things he discovered about bats.