Carbon County News | 1913-12-18 | Page 12 | How Flies Carry Infection

HOW FLIES CARRY INFECTION strong wind blowing steadily may convey them many miles prom from region it that the inlet cribs in lako lake erio eric bov the water nater supply of cleveland Clo voland aro are overrun with mith flies tho the crib farthest out in tho the inko lake Is six miloe milos from shore last summer professor hodge 01 being in cleveland vas uns asked to go out to the cribs and look tho the situation over he ile went and as stated found all thu the cribs supporting a numerous fly popo population lation of blue bottles alica and tho the six mile inlet was as bad as any of the others there was nothing on the cribs for the files flies to feed upon and careful inquiry showed tha that transportation by boat was extremely improbable tho the professor was vias led to the conclusion therefore that tho the tiles flies were blown out over the sixmile alx SIX mile lat rotch of water by tho the strong south winds if they are transported this distance over water the possible extent of their travel ashcra must bo be very considerable assuming a steady and strong wind blowing in the samo same direction for some timo time the chance of flies from an infected region being blown in sivo flights ten fifteen or oven even awen ty yvo alvo miles deserves at least consideration era tion new york evening post