MYSTERIOUS DISEASE IN NORTH CANADA
(Rec. S. 10). OTTAWA, Feb. 26. Tlie Royal Canadian Mounted Police to-day set a quarantine patrol around a forty thousand square mile tract of Canada’s Northland. This is to prevent the spread of the mysterious disease, which has killed four persons in the trading post settlement of Chesterfield Inlet, on the shore of Hudson Bay. The disease causes rapid and severe paralysis. It is suspected of being of virus origin. Both whites and Eskimos have been attacked by the disease.
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Grey River Argus, 28 February 1949, Page 4
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