SPREAD OF DISEASE
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigb t.) LONDON, July 17. It is possible for the germ of loot and mouth disease to travel long distances by the upper air currents, and human epidemics are carried in the same way, according to Mr W. Dillon Westno, of the /University School of Agriculture at Cambridge. Air Weston states that he undertook many air flights in an endeavom to trace how plant crop diseases spread, and he has proved that spores and bacteria were found at great heights. A large number of bacteria were active even two miles above the earrli.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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104SPREAD OF DISEASE Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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