INFLUENZA INFECTION.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 December 1918, Page 4

INFLUENZA INFECTION.

A PECULIAR CASE. “One question on which the medical authorities have expressed strong opinions is the means by which the influenza epidemic has been spread,” said the Minister for Public Health in Wellington on Saturday. “The opinion laid down in New Zealand has been that personal contact was the only means of transmitting infection; but a gentleman who has arrived from America, and who studied the influenza epidemic there, tells me that the keeper of a lighthouse on Lake Winnipeg was affected. A relief launch was sent to make inquiries when the light was not shewn, and the keeper and his wife were found both to be stricken with the discasS. “Inquiry showed that these people had not had any communication with the shore, direct or indirect, for a period of eight weeks before they were infected. Not even a letter had been received from the shorA I leave the medical profession to solve problem.”