DESTRUCTION OF RATS
TYPHOID BACILLUS EMPLOYED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, August 10. The Pasteur Institute, which is always foremost in the war against rats, has discovered the bacillus of rat typhoid, which is now obtainable in small phials. It preserves its toxic qualities for a considerable time and is dissolved in cold water, previously boiled, with which bread or grain is impregnated. One rat contracting the disease is sufficient to infect whole colonies, which will die in a few days. The virus is innocuous to human beings and domestic animals, game and poultry.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1930, Page 12
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