PLAGUE SUBDUED
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
THE OUTBREAK IN MANCHURIA,
WHAT IT WAS TRACEABLE TO.
(Received March 23, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, March 22.
Dr. G. E. Morrison, The Times Pekin correspondent, writing to The Times from Harbin, Manchuria, reports that the plague has subsided. Th<s~OUtbreak was traceable to marmots, which were formerly hunted by Buriats and other Mongols, who recognised the infected animals and left theme severely' alone. Recently inexperienced Chinese hunters entered the trade with disastrous results.
The disease manifests itself after the hunters' return'- for the winter. The hunters eat the marmots, but there is no direct intestinal infection.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10195, 24 March 1911, Page 5
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104PLAGUE SUBDUED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10195, 24 March 1911, Page 5
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