WAR AGAINST RATS
TYPHOID BACILLUS FOUND. INNOCUOUS TO* HUMAN BEINGS. (United Press' Association.) \ (By Electric -Telegraph—Copyright) PARIS, August 10. The Pasteur Institute, which is always foremost in' the war against rate,’ has discovered the bacillus of rat typhoid, and it is now obtainable in small phials. Jt preserves jits toxic qualities for d considerable . time, and ' is ' dissolved in cold water,- previously boiled, with which bread or grain is impregnated. One rat contracting the - disease is sufficient to infect whole colonies, which will die in a few days. C The virus, is innocuous to human beings and domestic animals, game, and poultry.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21102, 12 August 1930, Page 9
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