AUSTRALIA
RESEARCH WORK VICTIM
CRecd. 12.20 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 21
A brilliant Australian woman bacteriologist, has diedM’rom an infection received during an experiment three weeks ago. She was Miss Dora Lush, a Master of Science, who was doing special research work on scrub typhus/ a dreaded disease which is a danger to troops fightingi in New Guinea and other Pacific Island jungle areas.. Three weeks ago a syringe she was using slipped and •infected her with the disease. There is no known serum or drug to counteract scrub typhus. Although she was dying, Miss Lush insisted that her fellow research workers take specimens of her blood. Miss Lush was aged 32. She had done important research work on influenza, and her fellow scientists declared her death was a great loss to science. The results achieved so far are still on the secret list.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1943, Page 5
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