INFLUENZA RESEARCH
TESTS IN AUSTRALIA NASAL SPRAY IMMUNISATION (Rec. 10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 2. Tens of thousands of Australian troops are co-operating voluntarily in large-scale tests of nasal spray immunisation against influenza. This method of protection has been developed over several years by Dr F. M. Burnet, a well-known pathological research worker. The vaccine used in the spray is a living but weakened strain of the influenza virus. It causes a mild infection which feels ilke a brief cold. This produces some degree of immunity. Wide preliminary tests made with troops achieved about a 50 per cent, reduction in the incidence of influenza among those treated. How long the protection will last is not known definitely. The effectiveness of this treatment against a virulent influenza epidemic is yet to be ascertained, but medical men have high hopes of its development.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25215, 3 May 1943, Page 4
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