Show ii benr ON OH W nept ST VICTIM SUPPOSED TO HAVE contracted DISEASE HANDLING GROUND SQUIRRELS vigorous effort will be made by the health officials to exterminate these infection carrying rodents sacramento cal the discovery a few days dabs agoff ago of an ail authenticated case base of bubonic plague in sunol a alameda county has inspired the state board of health to renewed activity in the campaign against the ground squirrel in that and adjacent counties at a a meeting of the board it was decided to prosecute the work with wore vigor than heretofore in an effort to exterminate these infect infection ton carrying rodents joseph mendoza the youth who is ill with the plague in the alameda alamda hospital is supposed to have contracted the disease through eating or handling infected squirrels killed by him on a hunting trip thousands of squirrels have been killed or caught by hunters in the employ of the marine hospital service and bacteriological examination has demonstrated the existence of plague among them but not to an ail alarming extent the effort of these officials is now being directed largely to the discovery 0 of an efficient method of squirrel extermination and some interesting experiments ai are e being made to this end |