Coastal cities from Boston to Galveston raged two years ago when the U. S. Public Health Service reported them centres of typhus fever, social disease caused by lice bites. Victims develop spots on their skin. Last week the Service partially placated the cities by stating that the spotted, feverish inhabitants of their suburbs had Rocky Mountain spotted fever, similar to typhus but caused by tick bites.
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