MYSTERIOUS DISEASE
IN WEST INDIES. SCIENTISTS BAFFLED. ■i MS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), Sept. 5. Fifty eminent British and American scientists are here studying a mysterious disease which is causing many swift deaths among human be ngs and animals in Trinidad. The symptoms in the persons affliittd suggest infantile paralysis. The illness in the animals was first d'agnosed as botulism, but it is now believed to be the result of the same virus infection which is attacking human beings. , Tests have been conducted at the Lister Institute at London and the Rockefeller Institute at New York. These conflict considerably. Sir Wilfred Beveridge declared the problem was unusually d.Jhcult, and was probably new to science. Surgeon General Wise, o ( Trinidad, stated that consideration is being given to the suggestion that the disease is the result of the bites of “mad” vampire bats, which are now killing many cattle, in Brazil, But many objections are raised to that possibility. Meanwhile the residents, particularly in the country districts, are terrified by the strange malady.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1931, Page 5
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