INFLUENZA GERMS
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(Rec. November (>, 5.5 p.m.)
Hobart, November G. As the result of extensive laboratory 1 p.strf. Doctors Lalor ana Hiuldon, of the Mental Diseases Hospital, claim to have made an important discovery in connection with pneumonic, influenza. Th?ir investigations revealed five or six organisms. Wherever pneumonic symptoms developed thev found that an organism, which the gram negative showed to be diplococei,' was present. Where the pneumonic symptoms were undeveloped this organism was absent. They succeeded in cultivatiiiff flic organism, which means that •i vaccine was obtained which ought to prov& as eli'ectivo as nnti-toxine in diphtheria. They also discovered that for weeks, even month?, after a pneumonic nat:ent had recovered, most of the organisms, and always, as the gram negative showed, the diplocccci were present in the sputum. These persons were potential carriers.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 6
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142INFLUENZA GERMS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 6
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