INFLUENZA VIRUS.
TESTS OF NASAL IMMUNISATION. (Rec. 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day Tens of thousand of Australian troops are co-operating voluntarily in large-scale tests of nasal spray immunisation against influenza. This, method of protection has been developed over several years by Dr. F. M. Burnet, famous Australian pathological research worker. The vaccine used in the spray is a living, but weakened strain of the influenza virus. It causes mild infection which feels like a brief cold. This produces some degree of immunity. Wide preliminary tests made with troops, achieved about a reduction of 50 per cent, in the incidence of influenza among those treated. How long the protection will last is not known definitely. The effectiveness of this treatment against a virulent influenza epidemic .lias yet to be ascertained, but medical men have high hopes of its development.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 172, 3 May 1943, Page 3
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