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Show Report Submitted On State Diseases The notifiable disease picture for the state this week shows no appreciable changes over last week, but there are slight variations, varia-tions, both increases and decreases, in the various communicable diseases dis-eases as compared with last week. A total of 263 resident notifiable disease cases were reported during the week, as compared with 310 for the previous week, and 382 for the corresponding week last year. This is the time of the year to start thinking about protection against Rocky Mountain spotted fever by means of immunization. It is the only specific preventive measure known. The protection obtained through immunization lasts for only one year and therefore, there-fore, all exposed persons should be immunized yearly. An exposed person is anyone that comes in contact with the so-called wood tick (Dermocentor andersoni) which is most prevalent in the mountainous areas of the state during the spring and summer months. The immunization should be completed well in advance of the "tick" season in order to have full protection at that time. The Rocky Mountain spotted fever vaccine used for immunization immuniza-tion against the disease is available avail-able again this year to physicians from the State Department of Health without any charge. This vaccine has been furnished to us by the Rocky Mountain Spotted Spot-ted Fever Laboratory (of the U. S. Public Health Service) at Hamilton, Hamil-ton, Montana, and we are now informed in-formed that this will be the last shipment of vaccine that we will receive from that source. However, How-ever, a number of the pharmaceutical pharmaceu-tical houses in the country are producing pro-ducing the vaccine. ' |