Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1920 — Don’t Blame Mosquito. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Blame Mosquito.

We have lately been taught that the mosquito was the only disseminator of malaria, and that we should be safe if we should get rid of mosquitoes. But Doctor Roux, farmerly chief physician of the St. Louis hospital at Jerusalem,' asserts as the result of his own experience of 20 years and that of many colonial physicians, that malaria often exists where there are no mosquitoes. He points out that everywhere In malarial countries the disease breaks out just at the time when the soil is broken for planting. He does not deny that the anopheles mosquito spreads malaria, but he says this is evidently not the only means of Infection. The old theory that malaria was caused by the bad air of swampy districts or by certain emanations from the soil may be correct after all.