Since these were among the most common family names in China, the carrying out of this order would have caused the extermination of 90 percent of the population.
Joel Polack, an author who travelled in New Zealand in the 1830s, wrote that "the natives claim to have received tradition that very large birds had existed, but the scarcity of animal food, as well as the easy method of entrapping them, had caused their extermination".
The extermination caused widespread hardship among the peasant population, many of whom had bred pigs as an investment.
The factors it cited were the loss of young adults caused by the extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis, a low birth rate, and an increasing propor tion of marriages to non‐Jews and withdrawal from Jewry.
A major international effort is already focused on malaria, and Hopkins said lymphatic filariasis, which causes elephantiasis, and measles are likely candidates for the next extermination campaign.
Further bitterness was caused by Tito's extermination of at least 70,000 alleged Ustashe troops and supposed Serbian, Slovenian and Bosnian collaborators at the end of the war.
In Yellowstone, the extermination of wolves caused the elk population to explode.
Then it was found that the extermination was an accident, caused when an asteroid hit the Earth.
In the case of brain tumours, however, extermination of malignant cells with any one of these treatments will cause extensive damage to normal cells and brain function, which explains why they are rarely curable (Black, 1991).
Although bedbugs are not considered a major health threat because they do not transmit disease, they can cause itchy welts and often require expensive exterminations.
