INFLUENZA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18896, 11 January 1927, Page 9

INFLUENZA.

SWISS OUTBREAK.

WORSE THAN IN 1918

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(Received January 10th, 8.20 p.m.)

GENEVA, January 9

The numbers of influensa cases in Switzerland are outnumbering those of the tragic visitation of 1918. Messages from Berlin state- that influenza symptoms in Germany are high fever, sore throats, muscular pains, and often pleurisy. A popular cure is the injection of the so-called "eojjvaleseent serum"—Obau C.J\J?.F,*— from the blood of persons recovering from influenza. This serum i§ not yet properly tested, and most doctors prefer to rely on aspirin and quinine.

NOT EXPECTED IN AUCKLAND

[THE press Special Service.]

AUCKLAND, January 10,

Influenza is still a mysterious disease, and despite tho groat deal of valuable research work which has been ac* corapHshed since the outbreak of 1918, the cause, incidence, and spread of the malady are not yet definitely known. There is, however, good reason for hoping that New Zeajapd will not be. visited by the wave which is reported to be spreading over Europe afc the present time,

In conversation with a reporter to+ day a senior member of the medical Staff of the' Health, Department in Auckland said the City and province, were visited by an epidemic of pneumonic influenza in July last, when the highest number of cases was 141. There were also 114 cases of pneumonia. P°th these sets of figures were far above the average for a normal winter month, and although the outbreak was nothing like so serious as that of 1918, it was still quite a bad one. It was possible that this outbreak was of the same type as that which was raging in Europe just now, and, if such were We ewe, there was little likelihood, of Auckland re-, .ceiving a second visitation. "Of course one never knows," he added; "and influenza is a dangerous, thing about whioh to prophesy, but I don't think there is any cause for alarm."