PLAGUE IN MANCHURIA
CAUSE OP THE OUTBREAK.
Presi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, March 22.
Dr Morrison, the Peking correspondent for The Times, writing i'rom Harbin, reports that the plague has subsided. He says that the outbreak is traceable to marmots, which were formerly hunted by the Mongols and Buriats, who recognised the infested animals, and left them severely alone. Recently some inexperienced Chinese hunters entered into the trade, with disastrous results. The disease manifests itself after the hunters' return for the winter. The hunters eat the marmots, but there is no direct intestinal infection.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15100, 24 March 1911, Page 5
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