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Show MnVP Winn " AtWnV.,! IW" Menace in Cities of United Stales W " X gi " :,X - : - - tJ 1" ?''''-; , ' , f 1 ENOUGH tiny parasites to infect every person in the United States with athlete's foot are lurking on the glass plate shown above. They are being examined by a New York bacteriologist. The plate contains billions of Tinea Trichophytons, which cause the toot malady, a form of ringworm, and these parasites were cultivated from a single specimen overnight. Widespread evidence of this disease, which has caused some schools to close and has indicated that an outbreak of it might come to any village or city of the United States, has caused medical men In all pnrts of the country to study means by which it may be eradicated. Cons int use of antiseptic is being urged as a means to aid the fight against ihls age-old malady which has recently taken a more serious appearance in this country. The photograph was taken in the Pease Laboratories la New York where scientists are constantly studying the disease in am effort to control it. |
