Bubonic in Suez

Last week officials in Suez (pop. 49,686) were vigorously stamping out what they hoped was the tail end of a "sharp out break" of bubonic plague.

The U.S. Army says the situation need not worry U.S. citizens. U.S. ships usually go through the Canal without stopping at Suez and U.S. soldiers have come un scathed out of worse plague spots than Suez.

To protect troops going into areas where the plague bacillus exists, the Army & Navy often give injections of an anti-plague vaccine. As this vaccine is not a perfect protection and wears off in six months, the services rely chiefly on powders and sprays to keep off fleas, and their war on rats which is continuous, plague or no plague. In Suez, the rats have resisted stubbornly.

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