SPREAD OF DISEASE GERMS
TRAVEL ON AIR. CURRENTS
WHAT INVESTIGATIONS SHOW
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association )
LONDON, July 17. It is possible for the germ of foot-and-mouth disease to travel long distance by upper air currents and human epidemics are carried in the same Way according to Mr. W. Dillon W eston", of the University School of Agriculture at Cambridge University. Mr Weston states lie undertook many’ flights ,in an endeavour to trace how plant crop diseases spread and proves that spors and bacteria were found at great heights. A large number of bacteria were active even at two miles above the earth.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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