DEADLY DISEASE
DEATHS OF INFANTS ON BRIDE SHIPS NO KNOWN CUBE (Rec. noon) WASHINGTON, May 29. Representative Jackson said the War Department, had informed him that the deaths of eight babies on the bride ship Zebulon Vance were traced to the virus .disease, pnemoenteritis, from which United States humans have never previously suffered. The disease was found here only in cattle. It was traced to an undernourished woman and a baby on the ship. The disease is very deadly ' and highly communicable. There is no known cure.
Fourteen more babies suffering from diarrhoea were rushed from the bride ship Santa Paula to Fort Hamilton Army hospital as a precaution. Fortysix other babies from various bride ships are still under treatment in the same hospital.
AUSTRALIAN AUTHORITIES ALARMED (Rec. 3 p.m. "LONDON, May 29. Australia House authorities are seeking medical advice before embarking/the June contingent of Australian servicemen’s wives and children. They are alarmed at the reports of sickness and death in ships carrying American servicemen’s wives and children from England to America.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1946, Page 7
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