The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-07-26
NO REASON FOR PANIC.

Inc Baton Rouge Times Ol
July % gives the following
timely Information in regard to
the method of transportation of
yellow fever, under the above
heading:
"We do not regard the situation as
one that justifies any alarm. From a
commercial and financial viewpoint, |
we realize how serious the situation
might be il the fever spread. 1t
would be a calamity not alone to New
Orleans, but to this whole section,
even though the fever did not get out
of New Orleans.
But the fever can be confined to
New Orleans and it can be stamped
out. 1t is no longer the mysterious
disease that it used to be-. Ten years
ago, science was ignorant of the ORR
gin, nature and means OF transmits
sion. To-day, science knows all
three of the points.
1t has been absolutely proven that
the yellow fever germ is an animal
parasite, and that it. is transmitted
from body to body by the mosquito.
The unanimous opinion of the medical
profession is that it is not transmitted
in any other way.
The absolute knowledge that the
germ il IN animal parasite is of the
utmost importance, for the reason
that IN animal parasite can live only
in q live animal body. If it leave a
live animal body, it dies instanter.
II the body containing it dies, it dies
instsnter. 1t lives in the blood only,
and only when the blood is ina live
animal body.
For this reason, yellow fever can
not be transmitted by bedding, cloth
ing, the cir. The germ can not live
in any of the three. It can not live
IN instant except in q living animal
body.
The mosquito Is On animal body.
Government research has demon
strated ct Havana that:
Sorne of those persons bitten by
mosquitoes which had bitten yellow
fever patients, contracted the disease.
That non-immunes who had been
kept in . mosquito proof cage, nurs-
ing yellow fever patients, did not con-
tract the disease, and could sleep in
the same bedding, unwashed after the
patients death, without contracting
the desease.
These facts we're established by the
Marine Hospital Service in the Cuban
experiments.
But they did not locate and identify
the germ.
Subsequently, DR.. Pothier Of New
Orleans and Mr.. Smith of New Or
leans. IN expert microscopic, were
sent to Vera Cruz by the United
States government.
They verified all the results proved
in Cuba. In addition, they discovered
the yellow fever germ and found that
It vas On animal parasite. They
raised mosquitoes In quarantine.
None contained any germs. They fed
some Of them on yellow fever patients,
al 70 fed developed . certain animal
parasite. Persons who had been
kept absolutely csged up, away from
yellow fevsr and away from mosqui-
toss for weeks, allowed themselves to
b bitten BY these mosquitoes, and
developed yellow fever, and new
mosquitoes whi-n bit them developed
The Same germ.
The Marine Hospital Service proved
that persons not bitten by mosquitoes
did not contract the disease, even
though subjected to every other sup
posed means Of infection.
Tho two New Orleans scientists
proved that mosquitoes raised in Oh
solute captivity developed : certain
animal parasite whenever they bit 4
person suffering With yellow fever and
that non-imzuunes bitten by these mos
quitoes Immediately before the mos
quitoes were killed, developed yellow
fever aud in turn transmitted to other
germ-free mosquitoes the same animal
parasite observed before.
No man with the least knowledge
Of science or with the least. confidence
IN science - reasonably doubt. the
accuracy Of the conclusions reached