AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 March 1918, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE MYSTERY OF “X.”

GERMS CARRIED IN THE AIR

SYDNEY, March 14.

Scientific investigations into the mysterious ‘‘X - ’’ disease, which is still claiming victims, show that the germs are breathed in and carried by the blood -to various organs, especially the brain, and burst through the little blood vesels, causing local inflammation; but. the patient is killed so rap- 4 i.dly through mti.-f :rence with the vital centres of the brain that there is not Dime for the germs to fully develop in other areas. The disease is v.-ry severe, for 90 pe ■ cowr of tbi victims die. It is coaf i. to two or three months of the ye-- particularly January and Februi-y, an seldom attacks' females, and never adult fern ties.