Show FROM SNAIL FEVER TO 1111 MALARIA ALARIA 4 A f rv rim r raw H af AJ w ba H soak IB dis H i a H P tn tf ca S s KIB 1 H an I 1 I 1 cical it e a s q Z I 1 armed with microscopes instead ot of to 10 inch guns naval medical scientists are arc preparing for a new so ot of african safari safara on which they will study some of the diseases native to the dark continent tho the navy medical group will accompany the african expedition being sponsored by university of california hence will have the duty of 0 providing medical service to the university paleontologists and anthropologists who will coyer cover mos most ot of africa this icar year seeking traces ot of primitive man and apes for their 0 own purposes the nail navy doctors will study such native diseases as african sleeping slackness sickness aa belh bilharz la or snail fever plague scrub typhus yellow fever and malaria they also will scrutinize a number ot of parasites which inhabit human beings for instance the particular form of hookworm in mozambique zam bique portuguese east africa to pursue their studies the group will havo have to tra trap and shoot animals are the disease carriers among these are the ahe rodent carriers of bubonic plague the zebra tebra deer g ganelle azelle elan and possibly lions tigers and leopards which are be keyed to be reservoirs ot of african oleo sleeping alc sickness kness most of these animals hive have not been tisch in rese research arch by american medical scientists before because 1 l W si ore are potential disease carriers are not allowed to be imported it t they should escape captivity they might Intro introduce dued an entirely new series ol of diseases into the united states there are particular regulations for example against the fruit bat a known carrier of malaria which it if once established here would destroy e citrus fruits tho ilia fruit bat however Is highly regarded by medical scientists as a good laboratory animal because it is easily ralsey raised in captivity it Is possible that certain phases of the malaria cycle now entirely under stood could be worked out through study of it y woo 0 |