THE SLEEPING SICKNESS.
Professor Minohin has returned to London from Uganda, where he has been' searching into the cause of the deadly sleeping sickness. . Armed with butterfly nets, he and his native assistants on the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza caught thousands of the flies which carry the trypanesomes—-the germs ct infection. '1 was frequently bitten, but only one fly in 1000 is infectious," he said to a representative of the "Daily Mail." "But if the thousandth fly had bitten you?" he asked. "Oh, I should not have come back. The sleeping sickness is absolutely fatal. The origin of the disease in Uganda is curious. An infected native was bitten by the local flies, which developed the germs and re-transmitted it to other natives, "until now the sleeping sickness has reached the proportions of a scourge in Uganda. Lieutenant Grey end Lieutenant Tulloch, of the R A M.0., are out there still investigating the disease. As to a cure, I must leave that to medical men, for I only concern myself with the cause. I have many months'work before mc before I shall know the exact practical value of my mission."
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12477, 12 April 1906, Page 7
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