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Show trail! ! MM HE I I YELLOW FEVER i I . ' 1 ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Jan. 1. Science i has not yet discovered p. preventative jof epidemic diseases,- however a serum1 ; is being formulated that may eradicato yellow" fever, according to delegates attending tho convention of the American Amer-ican Association for tho Advancement of Science, in session here':. Warning was issued by the delegates against influenza, spinal mouingitis ' and infantile paralysis. ! Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller: instituto for medical rcseai-ch, and 'president of the association, explained that scientists were progressing In thoir fight on cancer, saying that medical med-ical research was "gradually ' getting into a position of strategic superiority" in its attacks on this malady. "It seems possible that yellow fever may be the first disease to be eradicated eradi-cated by science," ho continued. "It is insect bone by a particular kind of mosquito. Dr. Noguchl. a Japanese scientist, is working-on a serum that may rid the human race of this affliction." af-fliction." no |