DELUGED WITH GERMS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18889, 3 January 1927, Page 9

DELUGED WITH GERMS.

——— ■■ SPAHLINGER'S TERRIBLE ORDEAL. (B? CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAH AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 31sfc, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, December 30. The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Express" says Henri iSpalilinger was working in a laboratory with an emulsion of hyper-virulent cultures of tuberculosis contained in a huge flask under pressure, when a terrible accident occurred. The microorganisms were carefully grown for months, and there was enough to infect the whole of Switzerland. The bursting of the flask deluged Spahlinger, the deadly cultures being flung to all parts of the laboratory. Spahlinger quickly stripped, washed himself ,ia a strong disinfectant, and then disinfected the laboratory. He would not allow the assistants to enter the danger zone. He says he was fortunate iu not being hit by a fragment of the exploding flask, otherwise the results would have been very serious. A similar accident in 1925 left Spahlinger a sufferer for months. He is now suffering from shock. It is too early to say whether he has been infected.