Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-08-26 | Page 5 | Gophers Spread Disease

GOPHERS SPREAD DISEASE. Spotted Tever In Bitter Itoot Vnlloy, Montana, Is Trncoel to These Animals, Washington Aug "5 The marine hospital service, In Its hculth repot t publishes an Inleiesllng nrort from Surgeon I (1 Cobb on an Inv.sllgi Hon Hindi b) him Into Hie so 1 ill d spotted fever" nf the Pock) mnllll lllns 11 new iIIhiiik- In (he HUler Itoot valley of Mont ma mil several other I laces Dr Cobb attributes this ills inso 10 the bile of tliks that Infest the locality Ihesi Hi ks carry a parasite which conveys the genns of Ihe fever It wns found Ihat the gopher of this section Is Infested wllh (IckH and II Is well known (hat this animal will not cross w Kir cxicpt under extraor dlniiry cln uuislniiees This being true It would M've Ihe neiessury ex lana Hon why the disease was iiinflmd lo such 1 small loe illt) Th. gopher of tilth particular si. Hon has In mine way bi.oine Inf. tied with lever organism and has icqulred or In herlted Immunity An Intra corpus cular organism has been founl In tin blood of some of ihe go hers from that locullty whll the organism has not been observed In Ihe blood of those animals obtained elsewhere 01 enn from (hose Jurl acinus a small river