SUMMER COLDS
Base Keeps Tradition (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) SCOTT BASE, Nov. 1. The summer season in Antarctica has started in the traditional way—with coughs and colds. While isolated in winter the men at Scott Base become immune to colds; but when newcomers arrive from New Zealand in summer coughs become the background noise throughout the base.
Those who have spent the winter at the base are highly susceptible. A simple cold, which sometimes keeps one off work for half a day in New Zealand, can mean a day or two in bed in the Antarctic. In about a month the epidemic will be over—until someone arrives from New Zealand, perhaps not with a cold but carrying a cold virus.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 18
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119SUMMER COLDS Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 18
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