| Show WAR WARNING NINfi ZEN GIVEN REGARDING TICKS those who go into the tills dur ing springtime should know something about tho the tick carrier of rocky mountain spotted fever according to claud wakeland entomologist mo lijo logist with tho the idaho university agricultural experiment station from tho the middle of march to about tile the first of june danger lurks on the trail for everyone who travels tile the brush covered tick infested areas of idaho the tick Is widely distributed in tile the state professor Mra wakeland keland points out lit in many localities it carries spotted fever until recently we have known of no method of preventing the disease in humans bitten by infected ticks he explains but now it la is possible tor for in tick infested territory to prevent the precautionary measures litle letle can be done to prevent contraction of spotted fever once a person who has failed to take precautionary measures Is bitten by an infected tick before going into tick country Is the time to take the steps which usually give immunity to the disease through long years ot of experiment and at the sacrifice of several lives the U S public health service has perfected a vaccine which establishes complete immunity in most of the milder cases of spotted fever and in sufficient deree of protection agal against list tile the virulent type to assure recovery professor wakeland asserts pro faction by vaccination careiy rarely exceeds ono one year so it la Is advisable to be vaccinated vaccina ted each spring vaccine Is supplied tree free from the federal public health laboratory at hamilton montana |
