ANTHRAX PROBLEM
Disease Traced to Goat Hair British Official Wireless Service. RUGBY, Feb. 18. The Home Secretary, Sir John Gilmour, announces that experts of hie department have solved the anthrax problem, which dread disease it has now been found comes from goat hair imported into this country and used in many industries.
For a considerable time experts have had an experimental station working on the problem and the eolution found will necessitate the Home Secretary asking the industry to send all imported goat hair to a centre to be disinfected in order that risk to workers handling it may be wiped out.
Anthrax mainly affects sheep and cattle but occasionally attacks human beings. The disease is extremely rapid, death occurring in a few hours, with rapid decomposition, although cases of recovery are recorded. In Great Britain horses and sheep are rarely affected. the disease being more common in pigs. 11 iinmns usually become affected ae a result of their occupation, e.g., skinning and dressing carcases, carrying hide s or manipulating wool i.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 19 February 1935, Page 7
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172ANTHRAX PROBLEM Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 19 February 1935, Page 7
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