Show I I Tick Tic Season For Spotted Fever Tick season in Utah will begin any anytime anytime time now with the advent of warmer weather and will last as usual until late summer The reader may say so what However It happens that we westill westill still have a a. few cases of at ROCky Roc Moun Moun- Mountain Mountain tain Spotted Fever each year In this state f tate and the mortality rate Is high In 1946 1940 five cases of f the disease were reported to the State Department of I Health Two deaths occurred out of the live five cases During the last ten years there have been on an average of thir thir- thirteen thirteen thirteen I teen cases per year and better than three deaths per year from this disease I i I i i I I I An Individual can avoid Rocky Mountain Moun Moun- Mountain tain Spotted Fever by keeping from be be- being beIng being ing bitten by ticks If It living ing In an area I where cases of this disease dlf ease have been I I noted all Utah one should make a systematic search for tor ticks on the body I I after going Into the woods or brush during the tick season It takes several se hours for Mr Tick to get down to the serious business of feeding so that a couple of Inspections in a day one day one at noon and one at bedtime should be sufficient Ticks should be removed remo if possible without touching them with the fingers Never mash a tick between the fingers Infections have been acquired in this manner from ticks removed from dogs Those of you whose occupations ex- ex expose pose paso you ou to constant tick infestation such as all hunters and trappers sheep- sheep sheepherders sheepherders herders forest rangers rangers and surveyors s. s should receive at least partial and tem temporary t m. m protection by being with a vaccine You will then be much less lese likely to get the disease or to sui- sui surfer fer severely se If It attacked It takes a few I weeks for the protection to develop after the so now no v is the time to 1 get get It done I I The Tho particular germ which cause cause- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever belongs to a small mall class of organisms micro I I known as as' In the body cody they I found are are found chiefly inside of or tissue cells Between three and ten days after be- be beIng being i Ing bitten by an Infected In ted tick the thep patient p notices the first symptoms These are ore fever a peculiar rash ra Jh on the thin and an considerable prostration |