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Question: Docs Malta fever cone
from dri'dring milk from cows with
Bang’s disease? "/odd boiling
■the milk make it 3afo? V/culd it
be safe to eat butter made .from
such milk? Are children as well
as adults subject to Malta fever?
Mrs, Pd'.P.
Answer: "trictly speaking, Malta
fcvcl* is caused by a gem that is
a close dative of the germ which
caused B mg's disease in cattle,
Undulnnt fever is a more general
name than Malta fever. The gem
causing ang's disease m cattle
quite fr quently causes undulant
•fever in humans. In fact, in the
western part of the United Stakes,
and scvora.l other parts as well,
by far the commonest cause of un
dulant f ver is the drinking of
raw milk from infected cows."
Heating the mi3k to the boil
ing point will kill all the germs
of Bang's disease. Fastourization
of milk will also do this, Mixk
may be pasteurized by heating to
a temperature of 143'° tc 3 43° P.;
and holding the tempo mature at
that level for'thirty minutes or
longer. It is, however, almost
impossible to carry out pasteuri
zation proporly in a kettle on the
kitchon stove without overheating
(con’t on top of page)
cortcia parts of the milk onr*
changing its taste quite noticeably.
The ohi’.i'.gc of tastet however, does
noc In,-jure the food qualities of
o 1* o v i " ic
But"or made from pasteurized
cream is safe to use sc tar as
danger oi cmierict tr.g undulant
fever is y>r corned. Tins cannot
be said .vf hitter made from raw milk,
'r t is quite possible for child
ren vo have v_ !•i lent fever. What
seems p:
hov/o'v era
who use
■or liar to murrj poisons..
if; tie fact that those
roe -vi Ik in c one idem hi
c
quantities omy day ai’o much
like!y to La;c uaclj Lint fever
lC3S
: han'
then o whs uso it oaJ.y coca.sion-illy.
The rcasor for this fact is that
frequent cral.i infections with the
a err: 3 of ur. dal.ant fever cause a
"nir*y Ocoa degree of resistance
to the disease to be bu .l1- up In.
a person!r body. while one who has
an crposuro to the gome only oc
rasicially is not likely to have
much resistance to them As a
IruJ ;. children drink much r.ioro re
gular 1\ than afulls, which is at
least partj.: IIy the reason why they
!loss frequently contract unclulant
fever.
I
T OLYQ 01IY AD7 C CAT YD
0.3 a remedy
makers inability
don, about the
o.ll things.
ertod that lira.
a Ivins. Don L*
lot ins at the Extent.:, on Office,
The Anchorage terms will be
seen in action here Saturday'night,
7ebruary 1. at eight o'clock., The
Palmer teams expect to pot up a
Coed fight'against the s oreng Anchor
age squads, so come and boost for
your toams.
AIICEOR/.GE SQUADS TO FLAY LOCAL
TEALS HERE.
Jim Hernon