SLEEPING SICKNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13722, 11 April 1908, Page 7

SLEEPING SICKNESS.

«a&. | ACTION BY BRITAIN AND GERMANY. I By Telegraph.Press Association.—Copyright. London, April 9. Owing to the failure to establish an International Sleeping Sickness Bureau the British Government is establishing a national one in London. \ Britain and Germany are signing a treaty jointly to combat sleeping sickness in Uganda and German ! East Africa. j j i i The world-famous bacteriologist, Dr. ! Koch, who spent 18 months at the Tsetse I Islands of Lake Victoria Nya.nza, in studying i the deadly African lethargy, or sleeping j sickness, lias declared that the tsetse fly (Glossina pal pal is) sucks the blood of croco- | diles and thence spreads the germs of sleep- i ing sickness along the banks of stream!:. In November last Dr. Koch recommended the destruction of crocodiles and the removal of | bushes whore, they lurk as a means 01 combating the devastating disease. Recent ef- j j forts have been directed towards finding I some therapeutic treatment which should j { cope with it. King Leopold of Belgium last j i year offered a, prize of £8000 to the person i who would discover a remedy for sleeping I wetness, which it is estimated has carried oil' i between 40,000 and 50,000 people in Uganda. ' and half a million on the Congo.