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Show TREHFEM Organism Producing Fever Not Yet Discovered Under Microscope Doctors Experimenting. PARIS, March 6 Sixty enlisted men of the United States sanitary corps, all from New England, aro now serving as hosts to normal or Infected soldiers or havo received injections of blood from soldiers known to have been suffering from trench fover. They are quartered in a British base nos-pltal, nos-pltal, where the Amorican Red Cross is using thorn for an investigation of trench fever, which is now s.inco the war. Tho organism producing the fever hos not yet been discovered by microscope micro-scope although it causes the fever among the British troops at tho front and stands second in the list of those causing tho great wastage. Tho disease dis-ease is not fatal but it means an absence ab-sence of six to eight weeks from the ranks. Red Cross Investigating. Scarcity of physicians in tho British Brit-ish army provonted the army medical corps from studying the cause of the disease. Tho American Rod Cross decided de-cided to undertake a survey based on tho yellow fover investigation in Cuba. With tho approval of General Pershing Persh-ing a call for volunteers was made and virtually evory member of the 101st, 102nd and 104th field hospitals and tho 101st, 103rd and 104th ambulance ambu-lance companies offerod to submit to tho experiment, sixty men were selected. A comfortable walled hos-Arital'with!a-completo-laboratory.eq.uJD-J ment and every necessity to trace the transmission of tho parasites has been provided by the Red Cross. no |