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Show DISCOVERS FEVER ! GERMS ARE BLUE NEW YORK, March 27. The yellow fever germ has been identified by Dr." A. E. Thayer, professor of pathology in "the University of Texa. ' What is declared to be the actual microbe mi-crobe was found j microscopically by Prof. Thayer in the body of a young ! Irishman who died. ' J By the use of xyol and other chem- j icals the scientist "detected both insido ! and outside of the red blood cells peculiar pe-culiar looking little microbes of different dif-ferent shapeH, but all evidently of the same family. Thev varied in size from a point barely distinguishable under the most powerful microscope to a mass almost filling up a red blood cell. All these yellow fever germs were blue. |