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FINDING OF VIRUS CLAIMED STAYS ACTIVE IN ICE. Discovery of a filterable virus which appears to be responsible for the sommon cold is reported by Dr A. R. Dochoz in the British medical journal, ‘ Lancet.’ This was obtained by passing washings from the nasopharyngeal tract of persons suffering from colds through a filter too fine to permit the passage of bacteria. Then colds were produced in both humans and chimpanzees by innoculation with the filtered material. The virus was carried on through fifteen generations, and the final product, which contained about two-quadril-lionths of the original material, produced a mild cold in two out of three volunteer subjects. _ The virus remained active when kept in air ice-box from three to four days. There was some evidence, Dr Dochez reports that tho virus not only produced colds specifically, but stimulated other pathogenic agents which might be in the nose or throat, such as the pneumococcus responsible for pneumonia.
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Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 6
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158COMMON COLDS Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 6
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