Show VIRUS OF TICK FEVER ANAL VIED Government Scientist Finds Difference Between It and Germs of Typhus TIck fever has been traced to Its 1111 and properly classified although It Is till tillas as mysterious a diSease as ever and while the mortality in Idaho and Montana in inmany runny many places runs very high the cases discovered in Utah have not proven fatal Dr Joseph F Anderson director of the hygienic laboratory staff of the public health and marine hospital service has after long research discovered that the tick fever Is a dis disease ase of Itself and is not Identical with typhus or spotted fever which It resembles symptomatically The tick fever is not new by any means for the malady was discovered some years ago In the Bitter Root valley ot of Montana Op On one side ot of the river It was dl discovered covered In quantities and the mortality reached 0 per cent while on the other side of the river there was no Infection what whatever whatever ever The Tho Infection Is supposed to corns come from the bite of the insect called tick and the disease asa Is usually prevalent among and cattlemen Since the discovery of the disease In Montana it has spread over the mountain country but the cases found In Utah have not been fatal Tim Tho tick fever Is unusually partial to spring Mysterious though the disease con continues continues to be Dr Anderson claims to have It properly classified and the results of his Investigation will attract the atten attention attention tion of science Bacteriologists at first believed that tick fever was similar to thE ordinary but usually fatal typhus the of which Is high throughout the United States Later Investigations tended to upset this and In order to morn mor fully Investigate the strange dis Dr Anderson went to Mexico where he studied typhus gErms for some time It was In Mexico that Dr Anderson be became became came convinced that typhus and tick fe fevere vere were not the sare saLle In experiments with guinea pigs un an injection of blood drawn from patients sUffering from ty typhus typhus fever failed to produce the same ef effect feet when the bacilli of the tick was in injected Similar Inoculations of monkeys rabbits and rats produced Identical re results suits Tick fever Is found only in high alt alti altitudes tudes and Is caused by the Inoculation from the bite of the rIte tick an Insect which Infests sheep and cattle Although the malady Is one of the most deadly known to m science Utah has been very fortunate In escaping It The crisis Is usually reached on the twelfth day with foyer fever as high as lOG degrees A violent eruption of the skin Is one of the certain symptoms as In spotted fever Bacteriologists of the hygienic laboratory are now searching for a remedy for the and many Independent Investigations investigations are being conducted In Montana Idaho and Utah Quinine administered In enormous doses Is said to be the tho only medicine so far found that wilt wUl check the disease |