Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — GNAT CAUSES PELLAGRA. [ARTICLE]

GNAT CAUSES PELLAGRA.

Committee on Disease in Europe Says Corn Is Not to Blame. London, May 14.—Dr. Sambon, a member of the Field committee which has been investigating the disease pellagra, telegraphs from Rome that the committee has definitely proved that maize or Indian corn is not the cause of pellagra. The committee finds that the parasitic conveyor of the disease is the “simulium repans,” a species of biting gnat.