FIGHTING THE ’FLU.
Doctors Make Important Discovery. WHAT THE “LANCET" REPORTS. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 7. The “Lancet” records an important discovery made by Drs P. Laidlaw, Wildon Smith and C. Andrews, that ferrets are susceptible to infection from the nasal discharge of influenza victims. It has also been discovered that ferrets which have recovered from infection are thereafter immune, and that the serum of human convalescents is capable of neutralising the virus, of the ferrets’ disease. The impossibility of infecting animals hitherto has greatly hindered research. though the doctors had finally established the fact that influenza is caused by a filter-passing virus. It is hoped that further study of the disease in ferrets will lead td the discovery of a preventive substance against influenza in human beings. The medical correspondent of the “ Daily Telegraph ” suggests that mankind will not again find itself the helpless victim of a great influenza epidemic. It is now certain that real progress is being made.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 809, 8 July 1933, Page 11
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