DENGUE FEVER.
NOT LIKELY TO REACH NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.— riIESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. Lv an interview with a Post representative,, Dr. Valmtine said that dengue fever, which is so prevalent at Brisbane, is a tropical,, or sub-tropical, disease, that generally at-, tarns its maximum in the hottest seasons,' awl this characteristic mads it extremely unlikely that the disease would reach our low latitudes. The malady was not contagions, and did not leave' any of th. depressing after-effects that ordinary influenza am. 1 recautions against it could no more uo taken than in the case of influenza.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12834, 6 April 1905, Page 6
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