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Show State Board Of Health Warns Against 7 lcks The State Board of Health is receiving a great many queries concerning Rocky Mountain Spotted Spot-ted fever. This disease Is not communicated directly from one person to another so that one may attend a person afflicted with the disease without fear of catching it. The principal means of conveyance con-veyance to humans is through te bite of ticks . It is believed that these ticks have become infected in-fected originally by sucking the blood of some wild animal which had the disease, but it has been established that ticks can transmit trans-mit the germs to their own offspring off-spring through the eggs and thus keep up the infection for a long time without access to any other source. Between S and 10 days after being bitten by an infected tick the patient notices the first symptoms. sym-ptoms. These are usually fever, headacke, prostration, and a typical typ-ical spotted rash which appears all over the body. Ticks usually crawl about the body for several i hours before getting down to the 'serious business of feeding. For this reason, it is advisable that those who go out into the moun -laius should' make a carefull search of their bodies twice daily and remove any ticks they might have found. Ticks should he removed re-moved preferably without touching touch-ing with the fingers and on no account should they be mashed between the fingers. It is posible to become infected with the disease dis-ease in this manner. People whose occupations expose ex-pose them constantly to tick infestation in-festation should be immunized by two doses of the vaccine administered admin-istered by the family physician This affords a high percentage of protection for at least one year. |