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INFLUENZA PREVENTATIVE BRITISH WAR OFFICE TESTS /.(Received August 25. 6.35 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 25 The Weekly Dispatch says the War Office is testing a new influenza preventative discovered by Professor Besredka, an expert in tropical fevers. It contains a neutral beef blood serum ■which stimulates the natural resistance to infection, also serum organisms which infect the broncho respiratory tract. The Swiss Army already has tested the preparation, which is swallowed, not inoculated. It is claimed that influenza cases have been diminished 80 per cent. One of London's largest banks and several big business houses have decided to provide their employees with the Bcrum. The opinion that the significance of the new preventative could not be judged until further details wore available was expressed last night by an Auckland medical practitioner. He said that Professor Besredka was a noted authority oil vaccines. If the new treatment were a success, it would be a notable step in the war against influenza, and it'" appeared that the professor's treatment was something absolutely anew.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 12
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172NEW PREPARATION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 12
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