Research call backed
PA Wellington The Women’s Division of Federated Farmers has backed calls for the continuation of research into leptospirosis. The Farm Workers’ Association had said its members were being exposed to the disease, and described the halting of research at Massey University as ridiculous. The Women’s Division Dominion president, Mrs E. Mclnnes, said it was now known that pigs and lambs could become carriers of the disease, and could therefore infect meat workers. In 1975, the division raised $36,000 to pay for two research fellows at Massey. This research led to the development of a vaccine for cattle. At its annual conference in June, the division decided to make further funding for leptospirosis research its sixtieth anniversary project in the hope of "putting paid to lepto,” Mrs Mclnnes said.
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