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Show DKKK I liV 1UTI-: is sriwiocT of mom-: Dr. Liston Paine of the United States public health service arrived in Salt Lake this week to investigate the disease due to the bite of deer Hies which have occurred this year in Millard and Boxelder counties. Several of these cases have proved prov-ed fatal, and Dr. T. n. IJeatty, secretary secre-tary of the Utah state board of health, sent a request to Surgeon General Blue of the public health service to send Dr. Paine to investigate investi-gate them, and also to study Rocky mountain spotted fever, which lias appeared in Utah. "The disease caused by the bite of the deer fly is entirely now to my experience," said Dr. Paine, "I shall ihrilitutc liiboi'ultiry liivcslliiUoin. For thu pri-st nl 1 am not prepared to .say much about it. First I must consult with Utah doctors who have treated the cases, see some of the sufferers, and so on. Within a few days I will be able to discuss it more fully." The Rocky mountain spotted fever Is caused by the bite of wood ticks which have been inoculated with poison. It is most prevalent in Montana, Mon-tana, and in Idaho and Utah to lesser less-er degrees. The public health service ser-vice has been studying it for some, time. Dr. Paine lias just completed a five mouths' survey of Idaho, where 3G0 cases of spotted fever were found with twenty-five deaths. Spotted fever is found in all the Rocky mountain moun-tain states, and is very fatal in Montana, Mon-tana, killing 95 per cent of the poo-pie poo-pie having the disease. |