SPREAD OF EPIDEMIOS
BACTERIA IN AIR CURRENTS SURVIVAL AT GREAT HEIGHT SCIENTIST’S INVESTIGATION By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 18, 8.45 p.m. London, July 17. It is possible for the germ of foot-and-mouth disease to travel long distances by upper air currents and human epidemics are carried in the same way, according to Mr. W. Dillon Weston, of the University School of Agriculture at Cambridge University.
Mr. Weston states he undertook many flights in an endeavour to trace how plant crop diseases spread and proved that spores £nd bacteria were found at great heights. A large number of bacteria were active even at two miles above the earth.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1929, Page 11
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