INFANTILE PARALYSIS
RATS AS SUSPECTED CARRIERS.
RESEARCH IN UNITED STATES
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, September 24.
United States public health officials believe that the common rat is a reservoir from which infantile paralysis spreads to humans. Dr Thomas Parran, Surgeon-Gener-al, announcing that the rat was susceptible to poliomyelitis, declared that the finding was most important. Further research would be necessary to confirm it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 5
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63INFANTILE PARALYSIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 5
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