Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-07-18
MOSQUITO AND fGALA9lA.
TIER Relations Ciscuc-ea Z. &c IL
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30 medical expert nov doubts that
L:a,a:iai feters ale caused - Ne
presence of = parasite first Identified
~ i-averan. Almost the only questions
ca which there is NOT ycL universal
agreenen; relate 10 the share which
the mosquito has in cca.ey.Gg he par
este from one human vic'!I - acO;h-
e.. Ths last that mosquitoes some
times exist where there IS no malaria
is s-soe p,ib.e OF easy explain alton. Ti..G
mosquitoes may bsiong to the wroa.
genus. c. may not have had q caaroo
to become Injected. Then too TIE res
i3e:ts may have learned 70 cxcirdo
Them with screens.
y moro puZ-!ing circumstance is that
doctors sometimes observe IN a,taC!. OF
malaria when few or no mc snuitoes
are at3.:t. This point was discussed
a. lsasjh a the recent International
Medica! congress il Spain. Of which
t:e New Yc:.i Me1ioa! %egs gives al
interesting = port. Some Of TIE ply
sic;ars eXprs ssed the opinion that tn
parasites di! not always disa" pear
from! 4 patients system when be had
apparently recoversd Il. buy continued l.
d=Telcp there. one generation after
another. completing the cycle Of exist
eace n a human body. Such persons
were liable 20 have another attacl;
without being freshly bitten. DR.. AS
coli of Rome. for instance. reported
that malaria in epidemic form ofteI
APP Irel in Italy in June. notwith-
standing the fact that AT this timo
there could be but Jew infected mos.
quitoes. Most Of these patients showed
however. al antecedent maiarial his
tory, proving. he thought. e:;e fact
that Ike recurring attacks within tho
individual were what kept malaria IL
readiness !. !c:aet the young mo squi-
toes.
Il does not clearly appear that TIN
congress considered the plan 10: tight-
ing malaria which has found tac nest
farcr with American and English SAM
tarians. and which is by far the mo :
radical. prcrc2;ica &C breeding ~ d.
p.iying the mosquitoes of convenient
places wherein 70 lay their eggs seem.
10 have b.ea ignored. According e
The .ied.cll News. the majority CT thu
delegates attached the most i:G!:3r.
lance 10 the use CT screens TO proven.
the young mosquitoes frcm beccal.
Ing contaminated. Dr.. Ascot though.
tat ii that system Of dealing with "a
tents were followed "a thoroughly
ali carefully rs isc.at:cn Is Observes,
n smallpox. II void Son l.:n., tbs
tran smiss.Oa Of l.e disease ard
render epidem;cs in Low mesquite
breeding lands almost unknown" lie
would employ netting 10; only 10 pro
;ect healthy people from mosquitoes
bit also to p-otec: healthy mcscl:;oeJ
ffom infected persons.
While accepting the theory TIA: tho
gems AnonAc,es IS mainly reso"nsi
he for 3nrea iing malaria. D.. Hauser.
CT Madrid believed that the parasite
( could reach a human subject other
wise than ~ the bite O: living mos
quito. lie thought that the gerr,
might live il humid earth under &c
vorable conditions. and that TIE germs
might flourish in regions free from
mosquitoes The inhalation from dried
marshes or the drinking of water in.
fected by the bodies OF dead mosqui
toes could infect. AMI mosquitoes dv.
ing in marshes Sc; free tee organism
which infects man through tie meii.
u.n OK the al.