Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-03-21 | Page 2 | Yellow Fever Bug is Finally Found

YELLOW FEVER BUGIS BUG BUGIS IS FINALLY FOUND Professor of Pathology at Texas Texas Texas Tex Tex- as as University Discovers Germs in a Victim New York March 20 The I.-The The yellow fc- fc ever e- e ver er germ erm has at ot last been heen identified according to Information received aLlie at aL atlie atthe the lie health department laboratory here from roin the United d States laboratories at Washington ton The luck lucky discoverer Is Dr DI r. r A A. IH g Thayer professor of or patholOgY pathology pathology ogy in the University of Texas What lint is la declared to lo be the actual microbe which has hag scourged the tropIcs tropIcs tropes trop trop- Ics es for or centuries s was found microscopically call cally caBy by Dr In In Inthe tho the body of or a ayoung ayoung young oung who was taken sick with yellow fever reer on his way from New York to ton via Havana He le lf was seized with the first lr t chill durIn during dur- dur In ing ng a short stop in Havana and died four da days later n By the use of and other chemicals chemicals chemi chemi- cals cal the scientist detected both inside and outside or of tho the re red blood cells cell celler er very I peculiar looking little microbes of or dif dlf- I brunt shapes but all evidently e of tho the same family Somo Some looked like lUte tin tiny tadpoles others had l or r horseshoe horseshoe horseshoe horse horse- shoe forms forrs They varied in size from a a. point barely distinguishable hable under tho time most powerful microscope to a I mass t ss ao ost i filling un a ared red blood l cell C These yellow fever rever germs w were rc blue I PIot Thayer tried hard har to find Ind out whether the germs had gills 11 like a fish or tongues like a a. human being but they were too loo small for his lens