SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
DISSEMINATION OF DISEASE. SYDNEY, January 8. The report of the Bureau of Microbiological Research on the work of the year states that it was directed to determine the part insects played in disseminating diseases amongst humans and stock. A rat was discovered suffering from leprosy of a similar kind to the disease in humans, but the bureau is unable aa yet definitely to pronounce in regard to the identity of the disease iri the two classes. Further experiment .vith rabbit virus do not suggest its practical application to the destruction f rabbits in the field.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3017, 10 January 1912, Page 23
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