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WAR AGAINST DISEASE. THE CALMETTE PROCESS. ANOTHER ADVANCE MADE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT. (Received Nov. 23, 10.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 22. Dr William Park, director of the New York Health Department’s Bureau of Laboratories and: Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene, New York Medical College, announces) that, following upon favourable results attained with the Calmette process of immunisation against tuberculosis upon rabbits and guinea pigs, tests will be continued upon calves and monkeys. This will be done with a view to introducing the method for the treatment of children.
Dr Leon, Calmette, assistant director of the Pasteur Institute, advised] a process of inoculation of babies three days after birth with a living strain of bovine tuberculosis germs which had been weakened or attenuated' through culture in equine or bovine bile. Dr Calmette inoculated two thousand infants i'n Paris and- none contracted tuberculosis.
The need for such an inoculation, which Dr Park hopes will be- practicable after a further year’s test, is es:pecially emphasised in- New York, where a considerable number of infants are horn every year in households where- the adults suffer from the disease. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 November 1925, Page 7
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