MYSTERIOUS DISEASE
DEATHS IN QUEENSLAND. (Fbom Oub Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 10. A good deal of perturbation has been caused by a mysterious disease which has broken out in tho south-eastern districts of Queensland. At Renmark, South Australia, 12 out of 15 patients attacked have died. In South Australia adults were affected, whereas in Queensland only children were stricken. The outbreak has considerably puzzled medical authorities. Assistant Professor Cleland, of Adelaide, was despatched by the Board of Health authorities to make investigation. Experiments were carried out on sheep, but Professor Cleland admitted that the research had yielded no results so far as the origin and. treatment were concerned. The symptoms are similar to meningitis, except that the brain is infected and not the spine. American medical authorities have evinced interest in the disease, and Professor Cleland is in communication with experts in that country.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18561, 23 May 1922, Page 9
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