VIRUS OF DISEASE.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. A message from Cambridge, Massachusetts, says the discovery that the sense of smell is the avenue through which some of the most baffling epidemics are spread, was announced at the conference of the National Academy of Sciences by its director, Dr. Simon Flexner. Dr. Flexner reported that experiments had shown that the virus which causes infantile paralysis enters the brains of monkeys by travelling from their noses through the olfactory nerves. Not only does the virus enter via the nerves of smell, but those nerves form “two-way. transports.” The virus can pass from a paralysisinfected brain down the olfactory nerves and out through the nose. Dr. Flexner explained that the insidious nature of the attack through the olfactory nerves was shown by monkeys. These were immunised so that tliey did not contract paralysis when the virus was injected directly into their brains, yet the disease attacked them when the virus was allowed to enter their noses.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 312, 30 November 1933, Page 2
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