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...Another distinguished yellow fever worker is Dr. Aristides Agramonte, native of Havana, Cuba. He is the sole surviving member of the heroic Army Commission of the U. S., which in 1900 went into Cuba determined to clear up the mystery of yellow fever. They submitted their bodies to the bite of infected mosquitoes and established beyond dispute that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes of the species Stegomyia fasciata. But the commission was unable to identify the germ. Since then there have been many attempts, many false alarms. Researcher Noguchi's Leptospira icteroides has received...
...late King Alexander of Greece died of a monkey bite (1920). Last week the Prime Minister of the Greek Republic, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, was bitten by a woman...
Cried Eleutherios Venizelos, "Let her go! I command it!" Physicians pronounced the bite "clean," scouted rumors of hydrophobia...
...king in whose name the bite was taken is George II, now banished, who recently and superfluously announced that he would return and rule over his country if called upon to do so by a national plebiscite...
...Strict enforcement of the city ordinance (against unmuzzled dogs running at large) for at least 90 days should be effective. Valuable dogs may be protected to some degree by vaccination against the bite of their rabid fellows . . . it is inconceivable that the prevalence of rabies in Chicago shall be allowed to go on from bad to worse until scores of children and hundreds of valuable dogs have been sacrificed...