DISEASE GERMS IN UPPER AIR.
HOW EPIDEMICS MIGRATE. LONDON, July 17. It is possible for the germ of foot and mouth disease to travel long distances by upper air currents and human epidemics are carried in the'same wav, according to Professor W. Dillon Weston, of the University school ot
agriculture at Cambridge. Professor Weston states that he undertook many flights in an endeavour to trace how plant and crop diseases spread, and proved that spores _ and bacteria were., found at great heights. A large number of bacteria were active even two miles above the earth.
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Shannon News, 19 July 1929, Page 2
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95DISEASE GERMS IN UPPER AIR. Shannon News, 19 July 1929, Page 2
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