SLEEPING SICKNESS.
RESULTING FROM CROCODILES.
PROFESSOR KOCH'S REPORT. .
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph-r^Jopyright). (Received November 5, £ 7.34 a.m.) ..LONDON, November 4., Professor Koch spent eighteen .months on Sezsc island, [Lake Victoria Nyjtnza, studying sleeping sickness. He declares the insect gloissina palpales' sucks the blood of crocodiles, and thence spreads the germs o& sleeping sickness along the: banks of the streams. He recommends the destruction of crocodiles, arid the removal of bushes where they lurk. ./
For .many years past sleeping sikness, or ''Negro _ethargy,'"as it is sometimes termed, was believed to have been con-? veyed by the fly glossina palpales, and also, to have had the water supply as a source of . propagation. The German Government commissioned Professor Koch to proceed to . East Africa in April last 'yeaj_ to investigate'the causes of thesdis- , ease, with the view of discovering ■ .some ;method by which_the disease can be com--1 batted. .Tlie l crocodile theory had not previously, been suggested by scientific men as far as the records available show.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11118, 5 November 1907, Page 5
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