PNEUMONIC "FLU".
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
A VACCINE OBTAINED.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Nov, fl, 5.5 p.m.
Hobart, Nov. 5. As a result of extensive laboratory tests Drs, Labor and Haddon, of the Mental Disease Hospital, claim to liave made an important discovery in connection with pneumonic influenza. The investigations revealed live or six organisms and wherever there were pneumonic symptoms they found an organism and a gram negative diplococci present. Where pneumonic symptoms were undeveloped this organism was absent. They succeeded in cultivating the organism, which means that a vaccine lias been obtained which ought to prove as effective as antitoxine in diphtheria. They also discovered that for weeks and even months after the pneumonic jpatient recovered, most of the organisms, and always tjie gram negative diplococci were present in the sputum. These persons were potential carriers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1919, Page 4
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139PNEUMONIC "FLU". Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1919, Page 4
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