STRANGE MALADY
TERROR IN TRINIDAD
DIFFERENT DIAGNOSES
■STUDY. OF SYMPTOMS
(United Press Association—By Electric Teleirraph—Copyright.) PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), sth September. Eminent British and American scientists are studying a mysterious disease which is causing many swift deaths among human beings and animals here.
The symptoms in persons afflicted suggest infantile paralysis. * .
The illness in animals was first diagnosed as botulism, but is now believed to be. the result of the same virus infection -which is attacking human beings.
Tests conducted at the Lister Insti tuto in London and the Rockefeller Institute in New York conflict considerably.
Sir Wilfred Beveridgo declared that the problom was unusually difficult and was probably new to science.
Surgeon-General "Wise, of Trinidad, stated: that consideration had been given to a suggestion that the disease was the result of the bite of the "mad? 5 vampire bats, which aro now killing many cattle in Brazil, but niany objections havo been raised to that possibility.
Meanwhile residents, particularly in country districts, are. terrified by the strange malady.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 59, 7 September 1931, Page 7
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169STRANGE MALADY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 59, 7 September 1931, Page 7
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