AMERICAN DISEASES.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13412, 9 May 1912, Page 5

AMERICAN DISEASES.

ENTOMOLOGICAL INVESTIGA-

TION,

Ottawa, May 7

Investigations conducted by tho..,Dominion entomologist established thaithere was no connection between ticks and spinal meningitis. It was previously believed that woodticks, which nve common in many parts of Canada, conduced too, if they did not cause-, tho disease. The entomologist, however, has established that Rocky Mountain fever is due to woodtick bites. TTio dis-easo is of a spotted variety, and is frequently fatal in Montana and Idaho.