DOGS AND DISEASE
WARNING BY DOCTOR A dfsease very common in New Zealand, although it was scarcely guarded against, was hydatids, said Dr. Stanley Foster, during an address at Canterbury University College, Christchurch. People fondled dogs, from which the disease could most easily be caught, as if they were not at all dangerous, and completely disregarded that such displays of affection merely put themselves in the way of contamination. Dogs carried the germ on their muzzles, passing it on unnoticeably, but very often effectively. Nor were people sufficiently careful in keeping dogs away from vegetable gar dons. For this reason the thorough washing of vegetables, especially if they were to be eaten raw, could not be too firmly advocated
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 10
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119DOGS AND DISEASE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 10
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