Mosquito or man? : the conquest of the tropical world / by Sir Rubert W. Boyce.

  • Rubert William Boyce
Date:
1910
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Credit: Mosquito or man? : the conquest of the tropical world / by Sir Rubert W. Boyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MALTA FEVER Malta Fever.—A bacterial parasitic disease com- municated to man chiefly by the milk of goats suffering from this bacterial disease. The germ is a minute micrococcus. This disease is an excellent example of the principle underlying every previous chapter, and that is the danger of the domestic animal as a source of disease. We have shown that it is the domestic or man-loving mosquito which is to be feared, and which is the very fertile source of spreading diseases. As it is with insects, so with the mammals. From the cow man may be infected with tuberculosis, anthrax, and perhaps scarlet fever, from the horse man may acquire glanders, from the pig trichinosis, and so on. Invariably the higher animals associated with man are liable to suffer from diseases which are also harmful to man, and therefore which they communicate to man by the milk, flesh, or excreta. Malta fever is an exquisite example of this principle. It cannot be too strenuously insisted upon that the domestic economic animals like cattle swine, and sheep and poultry require hygienic super-