INOCULATION OF RABBITS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8161, 19 June 1906, Page 3

INOCULATION OF RABBITS.

INTERVIEW !wil'H'. MR DANYSZ. jfo DANGER IN THfc! EXPERI- ;•;;;"' " : ' '■ /MENT. ■ ! - •■.' f .■•,.'..•. j : ; ' ■ 31. Dr. arrived in Melbourne »jfientiyi 'He .was,met 'by Mr Twopenny, of the Pasforaliete' Association, and Dr...Tld9well of. tie.'New [SpoVb Wales Health Department. Vln an interview he said the \opposi;rtioiito.bis proposal waa largely be-; cause it was misunderstood. .He whs satisfied that there waa no danger the experiment/ he proposed, .ajifl\lt' would be tested in tbe Golabratory in Sydney, belore^any.farther experiment wi»s - made at Broughton Island; "Are- you not, introducing a new disease in Auairalia?" be was asked. ' Hs reply was* "No. The' baciliua belongs to a group already known to scientists as causing a disease peculiar to rabbit's, and J have been '. informed that Dr Tidawell has recently succeeded in isolating from ..the rabbit at present existing in New South \Vales a microbe which be* 'longs to tbe same group, and may or may not be identical." ■ "Hate you at present a culture "of satisfactory toxib power?" "Fee, Binder tbe conditions of the experiment already made. It will, of coarse, be necessary to make a further experiment in the same direb* tion under tbe condition of the new environment." any danger attach to the Thandiingof the. virus as yon pro-i pose to employ it?" "jMone what- '[ ever, it ie perfectly harmless. * **How soon does it, kill the rabrbitt!V "in, from two days to a jbipnt.h.J' It, depends on the body weight of tbe animal," ~-'' . t:i **Will.not : the rabbits -eventually -become Immime? '. "It has uot been, -.fodnd; possible to; immunise the rab? t f but a - fresh ;sl»trb4n!btlbn bl virus will require to , i;'-^iiMH^}fjp6m,ti'tae>'to"; time bb re-, -Vquire'd in different, places." ; \ . ' v~:j> Witt* that .need, the service of ojc- . %j^tefe*'- F Jt Norlfc oan be done quite "sis easily.as in the employment of . ;. * . V/Tne Lofidbn correspondent of the, '- Sydney .Morning Herrid,' writing on :-^,'*P r Panysas, with .^^fißißtant^ndl' ] a;' great mass of

j.for. Sydney. .The virus, cf, pneujmbnia, 1 understand, is "what Dr." Naoyez relies upon, aud he holds, I believe, that there would be no danger in rabbits affected by heredity .with this disease being eaten, and that, as pneumonia, is not contagious, his experiments will be unattended with danger to mankind or other animals,"