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Show PESTILENCE CAUSED BY WAR Generally Understood That the Influenza Influ-enza Epidemic Wat a Direct Result of Great Conflict. Sufficient time nas not yet elapsed to determine the Indirect effects of the recent eruption of Mount Kloet In Java which wiped out over a score of villages vil-lages and killed thousands of the natives, na-tives, but recollections of Krakatoa's volcanic outburst In 1883 which within six weeks sprinkled Its fine lava dust over the whole world, has given nn Interesting In-teresting suggestion to certain members mem-bers of the medical profession. During the closing year of the war an Infiu-ensa Infiu-ensa epidemic niged In many parts of the yorld. The manner of Its out- I break In different countries Indicated that the germs of the disease had been conveyed by the currents In the air. The theory, therefore, has been broached that the poison gases with which many sectors of the Hunting area were drenched were carried by the wind In every direction, causing the Influenza outbreak In Spain, Germany, Ger-many, England, France, South America, Amer-ica, Australia, Africa, Asia, as well as In the United States and some of the Central American countries. That the Influenza Is a corollary of the war Is undoubted. Any similar glguntlc conflict. con-flict. Is argued, would be attended with a similar widespread pestilence another an-other reason why every effort should be made to avert wars In the future. Leslie's. |