COOTIE RESPONSIBLE FOR MILLION DEAD.
LONDON, Jan/ 3.— 01' the insects responsible for the death or disablement of hundreds of thousands m the war zone, the louse «is declared authoritatively to have been one of the most deadly and to have accounted' for at least a million persons. That, however, is only a rough estimnte, and the probability is that tho total was infinitely higher, for m Serbia alone typhus, a louse-borne disease, , infected nearly one million persons and ! killed 500 a 'day m the little city of Jassy, while 206 of the 1200 medical officers m the country died from the disease. . This disease 'spread over Russia, Austria, Germany, and the Balkans generally.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14844, 22 February 1919, Page 6
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114COOTIE RESPONSIBLE FOR MILLION DEAD. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14844, 22 February 1919, Page 6
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