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By Three Medical Men THE INFLUENZA SCOURGE FERRET AS A SUBJECT FOR EXPERIMENTS PERIOD OF IMMUNITY .4 VIRUS DISCOVERED AS INFECTIVE AGENT RESEARCH REPORT By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (R eceiyed AlarcTi 2, 0.10 a.in.) London, .March 1 The British Medical llesearcli Council's annual report refers to the opening up of an apparently promising new line of attack on the influenza problem. This is the result of the discovery by three medical men, Dr It. P. Laidlaw, Dr C. H. Andrews and Dr W. Smith that human influenza can be transmitted by ferrets, thus bringing the disease within the range of experiment.
Alter recovery, ferrets were found to he immune from further infections during a period the length of which lias not yet been determined. A virus was also discovered which acts apparently as a primary infective agent in human influenza.
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Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4181, 2 March 1934, Page 4
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