SPAHLINGER VACCINE.

Wairarapa Age, 2 October 1935, Page 5

SPAHLINGER VACCINE.

EXPERIMENTS SHOW GOOD RESULTS. 1 DAIRY CATTLE & IMMUNITY FROM TUBERCULOSIS. PROSPECTS OF AN IMPORTANT ADVANCE. (Received Tuesday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. A report on experiments mad& on calves with Spahlinger vaccine has been made by officers of the Ulster Government. The report < states that vaccine highly immunised vaccinated calves to a lethal ' / dose of tubercle bacilli and conferred equal immunity to intense natural infection for approximately two years. The experiments will be continued to discover the mini- ’ mum dose sufficient to confer immunity. Following the Spahlinger experiment, the ”Daily Telegraph” demands the adoption by Britain of the use of vaccine, recalling that a committee of experts last year pointed out that the milking life of the British cow is only half of what it should be in reality, causing an annual loss of three million sterling while forty per cent, qf dairy cows are badly infected with tuberculosis. Over five per cent, of milk samples from individual herds are dangerous. Bovine tuberculosis caused 2500 deaths of human beings and ffiQch illness The British Association in 1926 demanded proof that Spahlinger’s vaccine immunised animals. This is now provided. Mr. W. E. Elliot (Minister of Agriculture) and Sir Kingsley Wood (Minister of Health) must take up the matter or they will be remembered a-s the champions of vested prejudice and blind obstructionists, resisting one of the most salutary discoveries. The injection in the calves consisted of a hundred million bacilli.