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AICCIDENT TO SPAHLINGER. ' BOTTLE OF CULTURES EXPLODES. London, December 30. The “Daily Express’s” Geneva correspondent says that M. Henri Spahlinger was. working in his laboratory with an emulsion of hypervirulent" cultures of tuberculosis, contained in a huge flask under pressure, when a terrible accident occurred. The micro-organism had been carefully grown for months, and there was enough to infect the whole of Switzerland. The bursting flask deluged M. Spahlinger, the deadly cultures being flung to all parts of the laboratory. M. Spahlinger quickly stripped and washed himself in a strong disinfectant, and then disinfected the laboratory. He would not allow his assistants to enter the danger zone. He says he was fortunate in not being hit by a fragment of the exploding flask, otherwise the results would have been very serious, A similar accident in 1925 left M. Spahlinger a sufferer for months. He is now suffering from shock. It is too early to say whether he has been infected.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3582, 4 January 1927, Page 3
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162DEADLY GERMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3582, 4 January 1927, Page 3
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