YELLOW FEVER.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19900, 1 June 1936, Page 9

YELLOW FEVER.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. i LONDON, May ’7. 1 [my and night scientists are work—ing at the risk of their lives to con—quer yellow fever, the dread African disease, which now threatens to spread to Asia and the Far East, says the Da:ly Herald. Their work is desperately urgent in vimv of the devastating effect which ii :‘pt'LilLl of the disease outside Africa would have. To tin: African native yellow fever is, no mace serious than a common L'Uhi, but in the case of 75 per cent. of A<iutics or Europeans it would be fatal. Loading the fight against the disease is Dr. Sawyer, of the Rockefeller international Health Board in New York. Associated with him is Sir .lulin‘Mag‘aW. medical adviser to the India Url‘icc, who is striving to keep yellow fever out of India. Facts about the disease and the struggle to conquer it are contained in a report published to—rlay by the Ross Institute Industrial Advisory Committee. Scientists have discovered that the Tiger Mosquito is the chief germ-carrier, says the report. Ten years ago, the report explains, scientists thought they knew all there was to know about Yellow Fever, but the following year saw a. new outbreak afi over Afriqa, so research had to begiagain.