INFLUENZA PATIENTS
Many Affected In Australia
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, June 30. Thousands of people in New South Wales are suffering from a type of Asian influenza which has spread from Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland. The incidence of the influenza is higher in country areas than in Sydney where another virus has struck hundreds of children, causing severe gastro-enteritis. Both viruses have been isolated at the Institute of Clinical Pathology at Lidcombe. The Federal Minister for Health, Senator H. W. Wade, says the virus in South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania was known as A2 North Carolina 1/03 strain. The strain is new to Australia. A spokesman at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children says the gastro-enteritis outbreak “is certainly running at near epidemic proportions.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30482, 2 July 1964, Page 19
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