CAUSE OF MEASLES
DISCOVERY OF GERM FRENCH SCIENTIST LONDON, May 26. (Received May 26. at 9 p.m.) The Paris corresnondent of the Daily Telegraph says that Dr Harry Plotz, head of the laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, told the French Academy of Medicine that he has discovered the germ that causes measles. It is “ filterable virus,” and Dr Plotz said he believed that it was possible to develop a serurh vaccine to prevent the disease, but it might take years of research.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23511, 27 May 1938, Page 9
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