YELLOW FEVER PERIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 296, 14 December 1936, Page 5

YELLOW FEVER PERIL.

* o i AIR TRANSPORT TO INDIA. r : a Air transport has brought a new peril j ' to India, the possibility of yellow fever t [ being introduced from Africa. To guard j; against this danger £12,000 is to be j I spent on equipping the Karachi air port n " with every kind of preventive device. v \ Papers were laid before the Standing Finance Committee at Simla showing ! that up to the advent of air transport j, j there \vas little danger of the introduc- ~ tion of yellow fever, for the time spent ° in journeying from Africa to India was „ ! more than nine days, the infective period t of the disease. Aeroplanes now make it d I I possible to reach India from Africa within that period, and the situation has ' been completely altered. The danger is l real, for India possesses large populations likely to be highly susceptible to & the disease, and climatic conditions, . including the prevalence of stegomyia ' mosquitoes, are favourable for its deve|lopment. The expenditure approved is to be used for the provision of isolation quarters, of measures for disinfection, g1 disinsectisation, the control of mosquitoes in the air port area and of a special . staff. ti ===== s '