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Show Tularemia Breaks Out In Utah ;'jt-V c? trf f n't C'Lt or tcorrtO rvi. tick cur fi fJU a"r" 0' "TrfSTKsojin srrt3 r;vR Tic p-J- " "iVj- FccojOMrc. P.eoiTSN A iWAt Rair t.os rs ASt 9 m GMl Si VHUL,r.C A-.l ) 1 14 , AS-..ST IX Tit .r.rfNS.vf MBIT Tiiti fitET II Connor 0m;i,TsS . :.; OF lF1cno I j NYMPHS I j ' fttrjoNsviE I 1 PODLtJTS AS I I Information Is Sent to Sports The mild outbreak of tularemia in Salt Lake countv to inform the sportsmen of the state in regard to the nature of the disease and about that other disease, spotted fever,- which is kept alive through rabbits and other animals in some parts of the country. coun-try. Utah has comparatively littie spotted fever but at times TTrov, jack rabbits and deer flies have spread more than a littie tularemia . Getting to tularemia first; ' The first thing to remember is that a person handling, especially dressing, an infected rabbit is apt to get the disease, unless he uses utmost precaution. The spleen and the liver seem to be the centers of infection and should not be touched touch-ed if it can he nvrtiHoH TDa.....,. with sores or cuts on the hands should never dress wild jack rabbits rab-bits for the disease is apt to be present and unnoticed. The infection in-fection or the germ seems to have the ability to pierce the healthy skin so- persons cleansing rabbits should use rubber gloves when possible. The second thing to remember is to always kill a lazy rabbit and burn the caras. Lazy rabbits almost al-most always are sick rabbits. Thorough cooking, medical men say, destroys the tularemia germs and makes the rabbit meat safe to eat. Tularemia was first discovered in humans by Dr. T. B. Beatty, Utah health commissioner, who described it as deer fly fever, having noticed that the symptoms showed up soon after the patient had been bitten by a deer fly. Dr. Francis of the United States Public health service carried on along line of experiments :n Millard county, the seat cf the epidemic a dozen years ago and learned thai the germ of the deer "!y fever was the same as that isolated isol-ated some years previously in Tvlare county, California, in a ground squirrel plague. The in vestigators at first scouted Dr. Be-alty's Be-alty's suggestion that the jack rabbit rab-bit was the carrier in Utah, but when Utah ground squirrels were found free of the disease the jack rabbit was investigated and found to be the carrier. The disease is seldom fatal but usually means a long wasting illness. The chief symptom is extreme tiredness tir-edness which grows into extreme weakness. Have your rabbit whenever you want it but handle them with "the bare hands as little as possible. Now to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: The first thing to remember about this is that it is dangerous but that the areas where the fatality rate is ihiee out of four is relatively small. Idaho, Montana and Wyoming iiave such areas. Spotted fever has beon found in almost all of Montana, Mon-tana, Wyoming, Idaho, in many parts of Utah and found in almost all of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho in many parts of Utah and in half of Cclorado, Nevada, Washington and Oregon. It is also reported in California. The next thing to remember is that with a little extra care when in the-mountains no one need be bitten ty wood ticks. It tak s i n? tick several hours as a rule to decide de-cide just where he wants to bur-into bur-into a man. When in tick territory inspect the clothes and I body three times a day. I When a tick is found f.tlached to1 thi b.idy vrw bes way, acccUinj to the Wyoming health dupartmen,. j is Lo put a little iodine or turpen-. fine at the point of entrance n:i;V then carefully help the tick "bac'K out." The herd of the tick is the only part which entds the skin and this is usually broken off unless ; c-are is used. It is als) reoo'.a-' mended that a shaip instrument be pushed into the skin, just under i lie jsws of the t'ck pried our. Gua. d against getting infection from some oth.r source while get ting ins tics out. Tii" thiid thina lo r;nemlxr U that all wood ticks are not poisonous poison-ous and that piaetieally the only wry man can contract the disease is through the bite of an infected. I lick althcu-h laboratory workers have got it without a tick bite, j The fourth thing to renu'mb:-:- is that a tick cannot acquire virru!-; encc until it has engorged on the ':!c-d of a large animal. D'mcsric stck play their part in feeding ticks and making the tick dangerous danger-ous to man. The fifth thing to remember is that the rabbit and other rodents act as hosts, that is the young ticks attach themselves to the rabbit and other rodents act as hosts that is the young ticks attach themselves to the rabbits, but it is doubtful if man ever gets the disease from rabbits or from the tick when it is at the point where it lives on rabbits. The life cycle of the tick is two years. When a female engorgps and becomes fertilized it lays 200 to 7000 eggs. These eggs hatch ano tne larvae fasten themselves to the rodents such as rabbits squirrels, et cetera. The larvae undergo another change and become what is called nymphs. These also al-so feed on the rabbits and become older and larger, when they again cnange and become ticks. After many months of dormancy the tick oecomes active and after a stay upon the largor animals is ready to deal his poison into man. The spotted fever danger is from .he warm spring days to July 15. Seldom are cases discovered after that dale. There is a serum which is effective effec-tive in preventing tick infection but is is hard to est and ensts sh,-,., $25.00 to make enough for one inoculation. in-oculation. There is no specific cure. About 500 persons a year get :potted fever. Those over 50 usually us-ually die. Those in the few really dangerous areas usually die. Children Chil-dren usually recover, but are often paralyzed. Remember with proper precaution precau-tion no one need get either tularemia tular-emia or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. |