Show THE FOUR HORSEMEN RIDE AGAIN again the four horsemen of the apocalypse ap are riding says the journal of the american medical edical Al association once more war disease hunger and death cestr destroy ay mankind the horsemen of today travel with the increased speed of 0 mechanized transportation today the possibilities for sudden and widespread outbreaks of disease arising far from their endemic foci are more likely than ever previously news dispatches and other reports from europe are not comforting typhus is being held in check only with the greatest difficulty and in some areas notably poland and the Balti baltacs cs this killer Is rumored to have reached serious epidemic proportions other potentially murderous endemic diseases are malaria yellow fever and plague and the fact that we are far from the battlefields and the stricken starving nations does not give us assured protection As the journal also says clearly the insulation of this country from the disease consequences of war wa will provide a colossal task and will require the most careful plan ning and effort fortunately for the united states we have the finest medical service in the world to act as our main line of defense 1 i the bacterial kissers kil kill Sers lers nowhere else in the world is the average doctor so well fitted to perform the dual tasks w preventing and curing disease |