Show POSSIBLE SPREAD OF YELLOW FEVER experts foresee danger from airplanes A new aviation peril said to be sensational lu in its possibilities came up for discussion at the annual conference of the british medical association cia tion sir malcolm watson ca called lie d lop to the likelihood almost the certainty of aircraft carrying yellow fever from west to east africa 11 if eliat happened tie lie claimed there was nothing to prevent it from spreading to asia from completely paralyzing itself other physicians at the conference undertook to show how airplanes might be the means of propagating plague cholera cho lern smallpox and typhus and sir george buchanan Buch annn stated that as there was a possibility of aircraft introducing new types of influenza and cerebrospinal meningitis into england th the subject sub I 1 eject was engaging the alie attention of both the air ministry and the ministry of health healt li for himself lie regarded it as an important matter requiring measures in the yellow fever zones to prevent the spread of the disease almost simultaneously with these deliver ances though without any sort of connection with them came an article in the london times time 9 setting s et forth facts regarding the transmission of cholera over the world after its appearance tit at calcutta in 1817 and asserting that by 1831 it had become certain that no country was secure against the inroads of the disease appearing successively at bombay and madras it reached ceylon in 1819 and spread thence and from india over eastern asia and a nd the islands of tile the indian ocean by 1823 syria was reached and europe threat ened it disappeared from turkey but began to push north and west again after ravaging persia and the lands south of the caucasus in russin russia more than human beings died RS as the result in cairo and alexandria were swept away in 24 days and the alarm tn in creat britain increased enormously in june 1831 when londoners Lon doners received the news that the cholera had reached riga where or sail of english vessels loaded chiefly with hemp and has flax were waiting to come to england it was then after nn an order had been issued for the quarantining of all ships from the baltic that the plague established itself in england for the lie first time yet till nil through that period beginning with 1817 there were none of our modern airplanes in existence and no possibility of tile the cholera being carried by them are they in any way specially fitted for the conveyance of contagious diseases for stimulating to special precautions and for thus alarming tho ohp world must it not be assumed that there la is a like risk in the to and fro trips of our ocean steamers and salling sailing vessels that have been so long connecting tile the continents the latter for many centuries past introduced introduce disease whether imported by ner plane piano or steamer Is dangerous in any case the call Is to prevent such importation por tation so far ns na that can he be lone done but especially to continue the fight against disease in till nil the lie count countries ries which are affected or serve as its breeding ground so that there will be as possible of it to export and this Is the task at which the scientists and the physicians tire working in their campaign campal gri against that enemy of man the poison microbe |