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LINK WITH DISTEMPER P.A. - MASTERTON, Dec. 3. A local farmer stated to-day that he had noticed in cases where children had been in contact with dogs suffering from distemper-that these children developed infantile paralysis. ,He said this might only be a qoincidence. but he thought it might be* worth investigation by the authorities. He cited a number of cases which had. come under his notice.
Commenting on this message; the medical officer, of health at Wellington, Dr H. Smithy said that distemper was a virus disease which also left animals paralysed, but it was not the same disease as infantile paralysis. Monkeys were the only known animals able to contract infantile paralysis in the same way as humans.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26635, 4 December 1947, Page 6
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