DENGUE FEVER SPREAD BY MOSQUITO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17862, 2 June 1926, Page 15

DENGUE FEVER SPREAD BY MOSQUITO.

AMERICAN SOLDIERS HELP RESEARCH WORK. By Telegraph.—Dress Aesn.-—-Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, May 31. Surgeon-General of the Army, MajorGeneral Ireland, has prepared a report stating that striking progress in stamping out dengue fever through the voluntary submission of seventy-five American soldiers in the Philippines to inoculation tests has been achieved The work was done by the Army Medi cal Research Foard in the islands, and resulted in the discovery that the same mosquito which carries yellow fever in Egypt is also the spreader of dengue. Preventive measures, based on research work, were inaxigurated among the garrisons in the Philippines a yeai ago. and reports reaching General Ireland show that the number of dengue cases has been reduced from eighty soldiers in every thousand in 1924 to less than twenty per thousand this year The commanding general in the islands issued an order pointing out that humrm subjects were considered essential by the Research Board, and that the discomfort and suffering involve'! were beyond the normal requirements ot duty. Five years ago dengue swept the American southern States from Texas to Georgia, two million cases being reported. „