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Show Fever-Laden "Skeeters" Bite Army Volunteers Washington. Submitting voluntarily voluntari-ly to bites of mosquitoes infected with dengue fever, 70 enlisted men of the forces in the Philippines have been mentioned In general orders for displaying dis-playing "a high sense of duty and soldierly sol-dierly conduct worthy of emulation by others," the War department has announced. an-nounced. As a result of the study zt the infected in-fected men,' army doctors have obtained ob-tained valuable information for the treatment and prevention of the disease. dis-ease. The disease has now been reduced re-duced to slightly less than 20 in every 1,000, whereas in 1924 80 soldiers in every 1,000 in the Philippines suffered attacks of the fever. |