STUBBORN BACTERIA
Sir,-In your issue of February 1 appears a statement (column 1,-page 16) that deserves a.much wider publicity. "They (bacteria) can be boiled’ fér six hours and even then can wake up /happily and cause poisoning," This is contrary to all previous, practice based on Pasteur’s fundamental thesis that boiling kills all living matter, The new discovery was made by a group of Soviet scientists headed by G. M. Boshzan, Doctor of; polilaiceice! Sciences, when investigating" an. abseure disease of horses. They discBye * the possibility of transforming Se of various diseases into their bacterial and crystalline forms. They boiled pathogens of infectious diseases for 40 minutes and then put them twice through’ an autoclave’ at a temperature of 120 deg: C. Yet the viruses remained alive. They isolated living initial bacterial; cultures from biological bacterial preparations, considered dead, — These facts provide a new basis for the theory of the nature of bacteria and viruses’ and will shed new light on many problems,: A fuller report, including photograph, can be read in the publication Soviet Union of August, 1950, from which I quote,
B.
B.
(Mairangi Bay),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 5
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187STUBBORN BACTERIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 5
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