CONQUERING DISTEMPER
VETERINARY PROGRESS SUCCESS OF INOCULATION [by TKLKGHATTI IMtF.SS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON, "Wednesday It is confidently hoped that it will be only a-short time before the veterinary profession will be in a position to cope with distemper and prevent the great losses caused in the dog world by this disease, said Mr. A. M. Brodie, at the Veterinary Association Conference to-day, in outlining the work which had been carried out in Hawkc's Bay in inoculating dogs with serum to prevent distemper. One difficulty had been overcome when it was discovered that virus travelling in cold storage from England retained its potency for six weeks after arrival in New Zealand. "As in all virus diseases, there is no hope of obtaining 100 per cent efficiency through innoculation, but we believe this method, which is fairly easily applied, will give 80 per cent efficiency," Mr. Brodie concluded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22769, 1 July 1937, Page 13
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