DISCOVERY CLAIMED.
GERM THAT CAUSES MEASLES. LONDON, May 26. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says Dr Harry Plotz, head of the laboratory of the Pasteur Institute, told the French Academy of Medicine that he had discovered the germ that causes measles. It is a “filterable virus,” and Dr Plotz said he believed it would bo possible to develop a serum vaccine to prevent the disease, but it might take years of research.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 7
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74DISCOVERY CLAIMED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 7
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