THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
DISEASES FROM , s ANIMALS. “The Modern Hospital” printed a striking, article on tho dangers of animal diseases to human beings. Mention Vris made of parrot disease (psittacosis), which has been known to bo dangerous since 1879, in 1892 an epidemic broke out in Paris through the importation of 500 parrots from Brazil;-; and there were many fatal cases of the disease, which is similar to typhoid fever. Other animal diseases fatal to man are anthrax and tuberculosis' from cattle, tetanus and glanjders from horses, Malta fever from goats, dwarf tapeworms arid rabies from dogs, trichinosis from pigs, plague from rats, and ringworm from cats—w “Eternal sanitation is tho price of hygienic salvation” is the way the whole 'subject is summed up.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1930, Page 4
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