NEW DANGER IN AVIATION.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20790, 25 February 1933, Page 15

NEW DANGER IN AVIATION.

CARRIER OF DISEASE. INFECTED MOSQUITOES FROM WEST AFRICA. lOHITED M.EB3 ASSOCIATION — BT ELCCTJUG TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, February 23. Experts at the Boss Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases arc perturbed at the risk of-yellow fever being carried across tho world in aeroplanes, which make it possible for infected mosquitoes to be transferred from West Africa within "the period of incubation, which is sometimes three months. Experiments have shown that 22 per cent, of mosquitoes carried remained alive after a 1250 miles journey. Sir Malcolm Watson, Director of Tropical Hygiene of the Institute, proposes that a permanent committee, including representatives of Australia and the other Dominions, and also shipping and mining companies, should deal with the menace. [A message from Canberra on January 25 said; Discussion on the carriage of Eastern diseases to Australia by the England-Australia air mail' will be opened by Dr. J. EP. L. Cumpston, Director of Hoalth, at the League of Nations Hoalth Conference at Singapore in April. To guide the conference a council of representatives of India, Malay States, Java, French Indo-China, China, Japan, Slam, and Australia was appointed. It is this body which is meeting in April, after a recess of two years. Tho outstanding topic will be means to combat the spread of disease by air transport, which has developed enormously in Asia. In view of the early establishment of the EnglandAustralia air mail, which must touch several Asiatic air ports, this problem has become vital $o Australia.]