DOCTORS GIVE THEIR LIVES IN PARROT FEVER EXPERIMENTS.
American Public Health Officers Die, Despite Extreme Precautions. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received February 10, 9.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 9. Dr William Royal Stokes and Dr Harry Anderson, officials of the Hygienic Laboratory of the United States Public Health Service, who handled parrots afflicted with psittacosis (parrot fever) have died from the fever. Both took extreme precautions during the experiments. Nevertheless, they caught the malady and became desperately ill. ’ Nine days following the first exposure, Dr Anderson died.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18991, 10 February 1930, Page 1
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