MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.
MEDICAL SCIENTISTS BAFFLED.
SUDDEN DEATHS AT TRINIDAD
.United Press Association—Copyright; PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), September 5. Fifty eminent British and American scientists are studying a mysterious disease which is causing many swift deaths among human being and animals here. The symptoms in, persons afflicted suggest infantile paralysis. The illness in animals was first diagnosed as botulism, but it is now believed to lie the result of the same virus of infection which is attacking human beings. Tests conducted at the Lister Institute, London, and the Rockefeller Institute, New York, conflict considerSir Wilfred Beveridge declared that the problem was unusually difficult and probably new to science. Surgeon-General Wise, of Trinidad, stated that consideration had been given to a suggestion that the disease, was the result of the bite of "mad" vampire bats, which are now killing many cattle in Brazil, but many objections have been, raised to that possibility. , • , i • Meanwhile residents, particularly in country districts, are terrified by the strange malady.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 278, 7 September 1931, Page 5
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