CATS' INFLUENZA NOT PORTENT OF EPIDEMIC AMONG HUMANS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 4. The epidemic of influenza at present attacking cats is really a severe form of distemper and is not connected with the influenza that attacks human beings, said an official of the Department of Health today. Vaccines for treatment or prevention of the disease were coming, to hand from the United States, he said, but there were so many complications of the disease and so many tests necessary to establish the existence of those complications that treatment was extremely difficult. The present epidemic did not portend a coming outbreak among human beings. There was no evidence that any similar epidemic had occurred among cats and other animals before tthe J9lB influenza epidemic. ~
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22914, 5 April 1949, Page 6
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