LEPROSY IN RATS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 20 April 1907, Page 3

LEPROSY IN RATS.

A DISCOVERY AT MELBOURNE. ' [Umtbd Peess Association.— CopyEICLHT.] (Received 6.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, : Satur. . . . A dead rat has been found infected with leprosy. This is the first instance of the kind since one. was fpund' at Odessa ih 1903T;> -The" bacilli'of lep). fosy correspond -ln'every wayjwifh thosefound in hunian beings, But the com--ttunication of the 4 disease from rat's to human beings o r other animals has not been demonstrated. The mystery is hosv tbe diseased-, rat reached Mel- • Bourne. _ „. - '•■■-' '■ .: ■- '"' , . '.

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