INFLUENZA GERM.
STILL A MATTER OF DOUBT. ASSERTION BY A LONDON BACTERIOLOGIST. A cablegram published in last evening's issue, statins that the prevailing influenza is due to the Pfeiffer bacillus is not entirely accepted locally. PfeifTer'a bacillus, so called from its discoverer, is the germ of ordinary influenza, and while many bacteriologists hold that the same bacillus causes the type at present causing havoc, this hypothesis is not accepted by a large body of the faculty. They think that the germ which has cist so many lives during the past few months is ultra microscopic, whereas the Pfeiffer bacillus is easily identified under the miscroseope. The opinion is expressed in some quarters that the value of the vaccine is discounted by the fact that it taJu-s a fortnight to incubate, during which time the subject is more exposed to infection than an unvaceinated 1 person, by reason of the devitalization j during the process oi incubation. What 'is regarded ns the ideal preventive is ' not a vaccine, but a serum, which reaches its maximum efficacy in twentyfour hours.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 62, 13 March 1919, Page 9
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178INFLUENZA GERM. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 62, 13 March 1919, Page 9
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