ANIMAL LIFE THAT SPREADS DISEASE 



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the right species bites a person afflicted with malaria or 



yellow fever, some of these little animals, the protozoa, are 



sucked up with the blood and enter 



the mosquito. They grow in its body, 



undergoing several changes, until the 



animal germs are ready to be injected 



into their victim, when they pass into 



the salivary glands of the mosquito. 



In biting, the mosquito always injects 



a little saliva into the wound and with 



this go the germs. These enter the 



blood, multiply rapidly, and cause the 



disease. 



If mosquitoes can be kept from biting 

 people who have these diseases or if 

 infected mosquitoes can be kept from biting other people, 

 such diseases will not spread. The best way to keep 



AMOEBA DIVIDING 



A "MALARIAL" SWAMP 

 A breeding place for mosquitoes. 



