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Show FEVERS FROM BITES. I Another lcssm in the part flida piny in cflrring disease lias been I learned in a study of the deer fly fev r in three isolated districts in j Utah There is a fly in central Africa which conveys the sleeping sickness, and now a deer fly is found t" inoculate humans with a j bacteria which develops is rodent The latest tisc of the disease has been reported from near Verntvl, I tah. Deer-fh fever is described as sometimes fatal, bul always p.nn-ful p.nn-ful and weakening in the extreme, and renders its victim totally dis j ablcd, so far as work goes, tor some weeks It usually occurs in deer-fly season, and sometimes i- associated with bites from that ! inset, winch apparently brought infection High fevei swellings i and breaking dow n of the tissue around tin- site of the bite, which i was usually in exposed places were characterise i( of the disease : Three yean agp Dr. W, H. McCoy first succeeded in isolating Bae-j terium tularehsis, lie had g i- Tulare county California, to study a strange malady thai was attacking various forms of rodents there. lie isolated the germ ami named i1 from the county where he had found il Last year li Francis after himself falling a vie tim to the disease he whs studying ;s able to prove that the Bacterium Bac-terium fcularensia of California is the cause of 'he deer-fly fevei in Utah. The disease no) spiead to liuinan beings m Tulare COUD ty, nor anywhere else, outside of Utah. The theory now is that the deerfly. which is the carrier of the infection between the rodents and the human beings in Utah does not exist, or. at any rate, doet not carry the infection in other places where the bacterium may exist. Iii Utah the disease occurs in localities where rodents, and particularly when jackrabbits arc plentiful, ami it is the supposi-j supposi-j tion that the deer-fl; stacks the animals on which the bacterium LLX thrives and then carries it to the next human the fly happens to bite More than one ol the fmers in the west have been caused by I B bites. For a long period 'spotted fever" puzzled the medical men. LLX and then it was discovered that tin disense was from the bite of a |