NARROW ESCAPE
SPAHLINGER'S EXPERIMENTS. HUGE FLASK EXPLODES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! LONDON, Dec. 30. The Daily Express Geneva correspondent says that Henri Spahlinger was working in a laboratory with an emulsion of hyper-virulent cultures of tuberculosis contained in a huge flask under pressure when a terrible accident occurred. The micro-organisms had been carefully grown for months and there were enough- to infect the whole of SwitzerTlie bursting of the flask deluged .Spahlinger, the deadly cultures being flung to all parts of the laboratory. BpaWinger quickly stripped, washed himself in a strong disinfectant, tnen then disinfected the laboratory. Ho would not allow his assistants io enter ■ the danger ,zone. He says pe was fortunate in not being bit by fragments of the esjdoding flask, otherwise results would hay© been very RA similar accident in J 925 left pahlinger a sufferer for months. He is now suffering from shock and it i too early to fcay whether he has been ■infected.. * '•
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 2
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160NARROW ESCAPE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 2
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