The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-04-15
FLEA GUILTY
OF SPREADING
THE PLAGUE
British Experts at Last Solve
Problem That Long Baf-
fled Scientists.

enrEeu years. h0reOVeIt SlI1cG pISAEAs
emerged from the uplands OF a PROF.
vince in the Tar interior OF China Ill
! has spread to every continent. An eff
I fective remedy for the disease IS still
\ to seek, although a prophylacttc has
/ been devised which eonfer.s y lnoder-
4 ate degree Of immunity.
When English Investigators began
the study of plague in reaai earHest
I they said they must find It's cause be-
/ fore they sought a cure no one them
4 knew how plague arose or how the
infection WIS disseminated. In somel
mysterious fashion it was eommuni-I
1 Gated TO man from rats, but what theI
7 intermediary between rat and rat and
between rat and man?
Patient Research.
I Patient, specialized research, which,
has now extended over nearly ten
4 wears, found that the intermediary
\ was the rat nea The flea sucked the
4 blood Of an infected rat, became Itself
Injected, and when il fed on anotherl
Pat communicated the Infection. FleasI
4 desert a dead rat, a nd when no other
rats arc near viii bite human beings
The rat fiea was discovered to be thel
source OF the pandemic OF plague
which has ravaEcd India.
Link by1 ink the chain OF evidenced
was estab lished. but although the proof
has long been conclusive enough, there
was always one unexplained factor
II was easy to understand how the heaI
/ became infected Eless arc like NIL
Weiss Martiaus, and require warm
| blood for their SusteHance. When they
| suck injected blood into the stomach
the plague germs multiply enormous
| ~ within them; but upon dissection
| tho germs were never found auywherel
| save in the stomach. When, therefore
the. nea became thirsty 3sain and tn-I
serted its .'pricker' and mandiblesE
once more into rat or man, how did III
| infect It's new host, That was the
! puzzle and it badcd the indian Plague
Research Commission ana many other
scientific workers all over the world
1 for nearly a decade.
Problem l. solved.
/ The problem has been solved by Al
! w Bacot. cntomoiogist to the LISTER
/. Institute, and DIR. G. j. Martin, +. II. s..
director Of the institute. who: with an
advisory committee, Of which llc is AL
member, has exercised general control
over the work OF the commission
Many. men study insects. but Mr.. Ba-t
cot breeds them. For long time hcl
and DR.. Martin studied ut the Lister
Institute the mechanism OF the trans /
mission OF plague by neas. At length
they noticed, with some surprise, that
although certain plague infected iieas
sucked vigorously at the shaver aldo
t,sI.,.,-,,,, i've, ,,;ss,ro,.,, 1e6 "a inc
solution Of the mystery.
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pass mo the stoiiiasu- ne "Fe.SHeu
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SUCKS. puL oniS succeeds IN oisteileilhs
win Wiz plooa WHAT ior sii''PI'fSt'y We may
Ga Us quiet
me way 70 lle Sloillaeh - DOC sea.
me meas IraItic ehoFts drive some
Of me piasue germs forward from
the waive chanoef INTO the quiet.
Nhen y reiaNes Some Of the nIood II
mas SUCCEED shrses Sack pS recon from
us SulIet INTO the puhct ure maze N
the man or the tat' put me Diooa mas
become hlecteu' ana on rs return
carries plague germs WIN II Such Il 4
the simple eNp4ananon OF the process
which mas peTpieNed experts Tor 50
long; but II mas required NaSF
amount Of minute inVestlsation TO
prove y beyond uouot
Much DOUBT cleared ~.
The theory OF Repatriation Wn!ch