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Show oo IF WE WENT TO WAR WITH MEXICO Typhus fever is as dangerous as the bullets of the Mexican sharp shooters. A doctor, who has studied conditions In the war zone, says typhus would be one of the most serious se-rious problems confronting American troops, if armed intervention were attempted This statement is made The fever Is always present in the colder plateau lands south of Tor-reon. Tor-reon. Thl6 tableland is the normal habitat of typhus In Mexico, but it is reasonably certain that the disease can be carried by the Mexican troops wherever they go in Mexico They carried it to Juarez, they can, and will, carry it to Vera Cruz or to whatever tropical district they go. The physician was asked what were the worst diseases that we might expect In case of war with the southern republic His reDlv was that the greatest menace to life would be typhus. Venereal disease would be tho greatest disabler. The typhus that we shall encounter encoun-ter there will not be of the mild tpe found hero. There the disease is violent. It has a case mortality or 80 per cent. Americans have no personal per-sonal knowledge of so violent a form This doctor maintains that typhus is carried by lice. If that is true, then the American troops must proceed pro-ceed to fight the louse as well as the Mexican In tho Civil war, but few men. of the hundreds of thousands In the two armies, escaped contact with the louse If our troops go into Mexico, they must improve on that record. |