COMBATING INFLUENZA.
ISOLATION OF THE GERM.
SUCCESS IN ,rAMERICA.g Australian and', N.Z'. Cable Association.
(Heed. 9.6 p.m.) ' NEW YORK 1 Feb. 3. • The Rockefeller Institute announces that
two of its experts, Dr. Frederick Oates and Dr. Peter Olitzky, have succeeded in isolating the influenza germ. Experiments with antidotes and anti-toxins are now progressing. The germ is called bacterium pneumonsintes, because it weakens the lung tissue*!. It is so small that it requires to be magnified a thousand times before it ia visible. ■/■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18316, 5 February 1923, Page 7
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82COMBATING INFLUENZA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18316, 5 February 1923, Page 7
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