The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-25

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4 troops from the eastern front to
r France for fear of transferring
9 typhus to the soldiers on that
4 front, which may have done much
Z toward their defeat in the end.
!; Sucks Blood
The disease spread into Russia
y killing three millions and infect
4 ing thirty millions more. This fact
s may aid Russia if an epidemic de-
\ velops, as many of their soldiers
may be immunized as a result OF
& having had an attack at that time
q Like so many other epidemic dis
\ eases, typhus is carried TO man by
m insect. In this case, 1t is the body
S8louse. Like the mosquito, the louise
Unjust feed off of a person who has
4 typhus fever. The louise prefers to
] snuggle in the seams of the cloth
I ing. Holding to the fabric with his
q hindlegs. he bores his sharp beak
into the skin and sucks blood to his
f1ill. If the blood contains typhus
Egerms, they soon begin to multiply
lin the intestines of the insect. They
F1lnally destroy the louise, but in the
meantime, many humans may be
bitten by the creature and become
Infected.
4 Thus the disease spreads like
fwildfire, especially among peoples
Ewho are i'll fed and i'll housed. In
kmany Balkan countries the people
Ehave their underwear sewed on in
1.-THE fall and not removed till spring.
No soap, no water, just a home for
lice.
y Typhus is deadly disease. About
TO per cent Of adults succumb to an
attack. The disease makes its APP
pearance in a week or ten days
after the infectious bite. There may
be several days of a warning NAL
aria, but more often the fever &C.
: ours suddenly with severe chilling
! and dizziness. The temperature
!. rises rapidly. reaching los to LOT
( degrees in two days. The entire
9 body is wracked with pain, head
I ache is terrific and the patient soon
< becomes delirious. The fever con-
\ tinues for about two weeks and
4 then suddenly falls and the patient
! slowly regains his strength, or dies
Z from pain and exhaustion. Some
4 times death occurs almost in
4 stantly. the patient just dropping
I in his tracks.
2 These epidemics can be con-
4 trolled by sound nourishment, good
: hygiene, and a definite and gener-
.aous amount of soap and water, with
z fresh clothing. Soldiers in camps
can be protected by these precau-
r tions and by delousing the clothing
:toften, but in the rapid advance or
J retreat of battle this cannot be
s.done. Moreover the warning ma
Y tons have little soap and hot water
: and few changes Of clothing.
x. Vaccine Effective
8 American scientists have found
that there Is a decided similarity
between Rocky Mountain spotted
I fever and typhus. Within the last
three years, q vaccine has been
! perfected in the laboratories OF the
the United States Public Health
!, service at Hamilton. Montana,
which prevents the disease in the
! majority of persons, and those who
do contract 1t. are only mildly az
u 1ected.
In 1899, DR.. H. r. Cox introduced
4; che blood Of typhus infected
& guinea pig into the yolks Of fertile
|; chicken eggs. The microbes bred
I rapidly. These yolks were dried
and the microbes killed with car
I, bolic acid and formalin. He re-
ports that one egg will provide for
rs or 20 doses and three workers
would produce two million doses
year.
i, DR.. Cox disclosed his findings
Z ohortly before Hitler inva d d
Poland, and the Germans. Italians,
Land Japanese learned OF this vac
Xcine. But here Hitler made seri-
nous mistake. He killed of and exiled
- large percentage of his doctors
land scientists. He appoi nte d a
tnaturopath as the head of his med
Zeal department. Consequently. he
<cannot produce enough vaccine to
protect his troops.
To manufacture vaccines re-
QuireS many skilled doctors and
! Laboratory technicians. and the
& hesrtless liquidation Of this class OF
Fpersons, skilled and trained, has
freturned to plague him.