INFANTILE PARALYSIS
COMMON RAT A CARRIER AMERICAN DOCTORS' BELIEF Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON. September 24. United States public health officials Believe that the common rat is a reservoir from which infantile paralysis spreads to human beings. Dr Thomas Parran, Surgeon-Gene-ral, anouncing that the rat was susceptible to poliomyelitis, declared: that the finding was most important, but further research will’be necessary to confirm it.
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Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 8
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63INFANTILE PARALYSIS Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 8
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