GERMAN MEASLES IN MOTHERS .
EXPERIMENTS IN MELBOURNE
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 31. The Director of the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (Dr. R. J. Walsh) says that medical research workers in Melbourne, have discovered how to save from blindness, deafness, and heart trouble babies of women who contract German measles during pregnancy.
He adds: “They found that if doctors gave expectant mothers a transfusion of blood from an adult recently recovered from German measles, the development of the measles was arrested and the child saved from defects. Research workers under Sir MacFarlane Burnet made the discovery at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. They used nayal ratings as guineapigs. The ratings recovered quickly when given transfusions from a rating who had already recovered from German measles.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 2
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