DEADLY GERMS
ACC!DENT TO SPAHLJNGER
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(United Press Association.—Copyright.) ,:. -LONDON,: 30th, December. , The "Daily Express's" Geneva correspondent 'says.". that -M. Henri Spahlinger was -i^orldng in his laboratory, •vrith an emulsion of hypervirnlent. cultures of tuberculosis, eoatained in a huge flask under pressnte,'when a terrible accident'occurred. . The -microorgauiams had been earefufly grown." for nionthsj and' there was enough to infect the whole of Switzerland. The bursting flask deluged M. Spahlinger, the deadly cultures»being flung to all parts of the laboratory. \ . ' M. , Spahlinger quickly stripped and washed himself in a strong disinfectant, and then' disinfected the laboratory. He would not allow-his assistants to enter the daiiger zone. ■", ■ He says lie was fortunate in. riot being hit by a "fragment of. the exploding flask, otherwise the results would have been very serious. A similar accident in 1925 left M. Spahlinger a sufferer for months. He is now- suffering from shock. It is 'too early to say; whether Jieias been infected.'•
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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157DEADLY GERMS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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