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Show VICTIMS OT San Francisco Doctor Finds Seven Sufferers Fear the Parasite. San FYancisco, July 10. Seven hookworm patients have been discovered discov-ered by Dr Herbert Gunn, tho city physician, In South San "Francisco on the edge of the truck farm district. "If the germs should get into the gardens," said Dr. Gunn. "they would be hard to eradicate and they might be widely spread by garden truck All the ground In the vicinity will be disinfected and a policeman will be stationed at the house, to see that the disease Is not communicated to the neighborhood. - "The sickness caused by the "hookworm "hook-worm Is not contagious, but the minute min-ute the worm Itself, freed from the body oL one whom it Infests, will work Into tho flesh of onather. Barefooted field workers are especially lluble to attack." rt |