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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 21 August 1913, Page 3

DISEASE SPREAD BY A SMALL BLACK FLY. : -♦ DEADLY FREQUENTER OF FASTFLOWING RIVERS. Tho occurrence in the British Islands of tho strange disease pellagra is dealt wrth fully in the current number of "Tho British liledical Journal." Recently the "Daily News" reported an interview with Dr. L. W. Sambon, who for many years past lias been studying the conditions of pellagrous districts abroad, and who mentioned the discovery of several cases of the disease in 'England. Amongst its - symptoms are a seasonal rash wherever the skin is exposed'to sunlight, and emaciation and mental trouble. Death, where tho disease is unrecognised, is more than prnbnble. It has been c~r.imon and reeogui-ed in Italy and. .Spain as a specific disease for more than a century, and investigators have supposed that it was caused by eating bad maize, ns beriberi is supposed to ariso through the eating of bad vice. ' But Dr. SambJii's rcicarch work shows that the disease *s caused by tho bite of a small black liy which frequents fairly rapid streams, a 'ly naving a world-wide distribution. Dr. Sambon, after iiis work on the Continent, visited ocollnnd, and found (he disease'is certainly rr domic in Fifeshk", Forfarshire, Aberdeenshire, and tho Shetland Islands. Last November, a '•■iso being reported from Hampshire, Dr. Sambon visited the \ew Forest, and found larvae, ■ pupae, and (lie insect • 1.-olf (of the Simuludae) 10 oc*ur abundantly m and about tho River Lymington. 1 iirco undoubted cases ociiiued. in a lamily which lived' i'or s'.-me years at Lev ton, Bsscx, then at; Oatford, and altcnviirds at Slough, l'ho three children attacked (two have died) iiad utver teen cut of the country. . ■ The rivers in liio of these places (tho lirl-ng, t'l.-e Ravenbourne, and ,'tlie stream] were all examined, and larvae nv ; d pupao ct the insects .were found in each.

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