One Germ Responsible for Both: How the Diseases Are Transmitted Baltimore, Md., Nov. 11.
One germ is responsible for both [the bubonic and the pneumonic plagues, according to Dr. Wu Lien-teh, director in chief of the North Manchurian Plague Service, who is pursuing special research work and studies at the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health here. Dr. Wu is said to be one of the foremost authorities on the [pneumonic plague, which recently has claimed many lives in" Los!
In the case of bubonic plague, says Dr. Wu, the germ attacks the lymph glands. It is not contagious, declares, being transmitted by fleas on diseased rodents, When it develops in the pneumonic form, however, the germ ise ried by the patient's cough and thus is spread with great rapidity. This form is more fatal than the bubonic plague, Dr. Wu said, the death-rate _approaching '100 per cent. He added that with good sanitary control, and strict isolation of those infected, the pneumonic plague may be speedily controlled, Dr. Wa said that in Manchuris where he has worked for more than 12 years, the plague caused 60,000 deaths in 1910, while thousands! have been victims of the disease in smaller outbreaks. In that country, said, the plague was spread by hunters' of the marmot, a Siberian fur-bearing animal, in some of which the germ. is always carried Reuter's American Service.
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