Important Discovery By English Doctors
INFLUENZA PREVENTIVE HOPED FOR. SUCCESSFUL INFECTION OF ANIMALS Received Friday, 8 p.m. LONDON, July 7. The Lancet, the journal of the British Medical Association, records tne important discovery by Drs. P.' Laidlaw,. VVildon Smith and C. Andrews that ferrets are susceptible to infection from the nasal discharge of influenza victims. The impossibility of infecting animals has hitherto greatly hindered research. The doctors finally established that influenza is caused by a filter-passing virus. It is hoped that a further study of the disease in ferrets will lead to’ the discovery of a preventive substance against influenza in human beings. It has also been discovered that ferrets which recovered from infection are thereafter immune and that the serum of human convalescents is capable of neutralising the virus of the ferret disease.
The medical correspondent of the Telegraph suggests that mankind will not again find itself a helpless victim of a great influenza epidemic. It is now certain that real progress is being made daily.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 July 1933, Page 8
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