STOLEN GUINEA PIGS
INOCULATED WITH DISEASE DANGER OF INFECTION [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GISBORNE. Wednesday The thief or thieves who on recent Sundays have removed a number of guinea pigs from cages at the Cook Hospital possibly secured more than they bargained for. The guinea pigs are kept for experimental purposes, and the discovery that their number had been diminished caused a certain amount of concern among the medical staff, for the animals have been inoculated with various diseases such as tuberculosis, and persons handling them are liable to contract the disease.
Apart from the danger of infection, the removal of the guinea pigs has occasioned grave inconvenience to the hospital authoritigs, and it is stated that the recovery of some of the patients may be retarded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21952, 8 November 1934, Page 10
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126STOLEN GUINEA PIGS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21952, 8 November 1934, Page 10
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