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Show EPIZOOTICS RESEARCH explores role of microorganisms HIGHLY INFECTIOUS DISEASE P. TNG ALL VISITORS ARE Dr. D. D. Bode/Epizootics Reseach Director To discover exactly what microorganisms are and to consider them as possible defensive instruments against biological warfare, numerous faculty professors in the Biological Sciences Department, under the direction of Dr. D. D. Bode, have pooled their resources in an epizootics research project designed to study the spread of disease among animals with emphasis on those communicable to man. Each year the capture of five thousand animals used in University labs for disease analysis leads the laboratory workers to a more complete understanding of the nature of communicable diseases and the formulation of more advanced and effective methods for controlling their spread. The federal government allots $413,000 yearly for this research with guinea pigs, mice, and fleas, and the utilization of these funds has led to such interesting facts as the finding that the Black Plague, which once killed almost 90% of the population of London, still strikes animals in the Southern Utah desert. Another avenue of epizootic research explores the microorganisms which act as causal agents in Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Rabbit Fever, both prevalent in the surrounding Wasatch Mountains. Dr. Bode claims that it is both easy and common to be the recipient of any of the animal diseases investigated. 140 |