Show I FROM SNAIL FEVER TO MALARIA A Il j jian Plan ian African Disease Safari atan Armed with microscopes instead of ot inch 16 guns naval medical scientists scientists scientists are preparing for tor a new so so so of ot African safari on which they will study some of the diseases native to the dark continent The navy medical group will accompany accompany ac ac- ac company the African expedition being being being be be- ing sponsored by University of ot California Cali Cali- fornia hence will have the duty of ot providing medical service to the university paleontologists and anthropologists anthropologists an an- who will cover most of Africa this year seeking traces of primitive man and apes For their own purposes the navy doctors will study such native diseases dis dIs- eases as African sleeping ping sickness I or snail fever plague scrub typhus yellow fever and malaria They also will scrutinize a number of ot parasites which inhabit human beings for instance the particular particular particular par par- form of ot hookworm in Mozambique Mozambique Mozambique Mo Mo- Portuguese East Africa To pursue their studies the group will have to trap and shoot animals which are arc the disease carriers Among these are the rodent rodent carriers carriers carriers' of bubonic plague the zebra deer gazelle clan elan and possibly lions tigers tiger and leopards which are believed be be- to be reservoirs of African sleeping sickness Most of these animals have not been used In research by American medical scientists before b cause r J animals which are potential disease carriers are not allowed to be im im- im- im ported If they should escape captivity captivity captivity ity they might introduce an entirely new series of ot diseases into the United States There are particular regulations for tor example against the fruit bat a known carrier of ot malaria which if once established here would destroy destroy de do- stroy citrus fruits The fruit bat however Is highly regarded by medical scientists as a good laboratory animal because it itis itis itis is easily raised in captivity It is possible that certain phases of the malaria cycle now entirely understood understood understood under under- stood could c uld be be worked out through study of it J I |