MEANS OF INFECTION.
ARE HOUSE FLIES RESPONSIBLE? Owing to the isolated and apparently unconnected means in which cases of infantile paralysis occur, the opinion is held by many that possibly one of. the means of spreading infection is through the bites of insects. This view is. held by Dr. Ernest Bade, \viho, writing in a recent issue of tiie American putoliclation and Invention," contends thai the bloodsucking biting house-fly, slightly smaller than the common house fly, is the insect which, according to recent investigations, is responsible for the transmission of infantile paralysis. This fly is l'airly common m most parts of New Zealand, and its bite is quite painful.
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Shannon News, 13 February 1925, Page 3
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109MEANS OF INFECTION. Shannon News, 13 February 1925, Page 3
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