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IN the Times of June 27 there appeared an article on “fly fever” in Africa, and the suggested destruction of big game. It appears that Prof. Koch has lately suggested that the African big game should be exterminated in order to destroy the principal means of nourishment of the tsetse fly. As this fly is the carrier of the infective agent of “fly fever,” its extinction would, in Koch's opinion, blot out the disease. The members of the German Society for the Preservation of Game in East Africa are, naturally, opposing tooth and nail this proposed drastic measure of Prof. Koch. They deny the truth of his conclusions, and hold that the fly disease can exist where there is no big game, and, further, that there are other methods of getting rid of the fly without destroying the game.
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BRUCE, D. Fly Fever in Africa . Nature 78, 413–414 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078413c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/078413c0