BRITISH DISCOVERY
DRUG STOPS INFECTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 1. According to Sir Almrotli Wright-, a well-known bacteriologist, a Ministiy of Health expert Colonel James, is “on the threshold of an important discovery, which may mean a gieat step forward, in the prevention of malaria.” It is understood that Colonel James and his colleagues ait the Health Ministry’s malaria laboratory in Surrey have been experimenting with a new drug. Ten of them allowed themselves to be bitten by malaria-carrying mosquitoes. and they were then treated with the new drug. Tn no case did the malaria develop. Apparently this drug prevents the infection of healthy P e °P le -
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1931, Page 5
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109BRITISH DISCOVERY Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1931, Page 5
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