Some new creature, invisible to the naked eye, was eating up all the eggs in human ovaries, starting at the annual Book Fair at Frankfurt, Germany. Women at the fair were experiencing a slight fever, which came and went in a day or two, and sometimes blurry vision. After that, they would be just like Mary Hepburn: They couldn’t have babies anymore. Nor would any way be discovered for stopping this disease. It would spread practically everywhere. The near extinction of mighty land tortoises by little rodents was certainly a David-and-Goliath story. Now here was another one.
