Mysteriously Missing
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) SYDNEY, July 3. Whatever happened to the Hong Kong flu? That is the question medical authorities are asking in Australia as the weeks go by with hardly a sign of the virulent flu epidemic that was predicted would sweep the nation this winter. One hospital in Melbourne has isolated some strains of the virus, but in Sydney—nothing. The director of the New South Wales Health Services (Dr E. S. A. Meyers) commented: “The non-arrival of the flu is a mystery. We just don’t know when, or if, it will arrive.”
Meanwhile, hundreds ol thousands of Australian: have been vaccinated against the flu, and production oi vaccine is still running al peak levels.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32031, 4 July 1969, Page 11
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