INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
The Health Department in reply to a correspondent, states that there is absolutely nothing to connect infantile paralysis with mosquitoes. On the contrary, it has broken out more often than not in places where these insects are unknown. “Prevention” asks whether flies play a part in the spread of the disease, and if the germs occur in the lilood and body tissues as well as in the throat, nose and other discharges of patients. The answer is that there is no-
thing to connect the disease with discharge from the nose, that while (lies are not a common agency in the transmission of disease, it is true that Hies may bo and it would he a good plan to keep down the number of flies, although the disease does not spread with anything like the rapidity of many other diseases.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2838, 27 January 1925, Page 1
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142INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2838, 27 January 1925, Page 1
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