SLEEPY SICKNESS
TRACED •TO PHEASANTS NEW YORK, Nov. 24—A discovery which they said indicated migratory birds may be the distributors of the dreaded' sleepy sickness which mysteriously breaks out among human beings was announced yesterday by three Harvard scientists. Ernest EJ. Tyzzer, Andrew. AY. Sellars and Byron D. Bennett, of the Harvard Alcdical School, announced in science that they had discovered the. disease known to medicine as encephalomyelitis ...in ring-necked -pheasants. Until two months ago humans were believed to have- their own type of sleepy sickness, not transmissible to them from animals. Then scientists discovered, simultancouly in the eastern United States and in the west, horses which had human sleepy sickness. In Massachusetts the horses were blamed for infecting humans and causing a small epidemic.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 159, 17 March 1939, Page 3
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125SLEEPY SICKNESS Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 159, 17 March 1939, Page 3
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