SLEEPY SICKNESS.
GERMS FOUND IN BRAINS OF VICTIMS. In researches into sleepy sickness (encephalitis lethargical, the mysterious malady which cither kills or cripples, Dr. 'C. da Fano, at King's College, Strand, I W.C., has found minute bodies in the brains of people that have died of the disease. These may be the causative germs. He has also found that if the contents of the little blisters which appear around the mouth in pneumonia and other fevers are inoculated into animals, encephalitis I similar to the human form is produced. "At present," said a pathologist, "we must confess our complete ignorance concerning this new malady. It has suddenly swooped down on America and almost every country in Europe. All we know about it is that it is mildly infectious. It does not spread like measles or scarlet fever." This year there have been 1400 cases notified in England and "Wales, or nearly three times as many as in the corresponding period last year, and seven times as many as in 1922. Four fresh cases have been reported at Belfast, bringing the total to 34.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 154, 1 July 1924, Page 3
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