Doctors Say That Deadly Blood Disease Is Not Communicable
NEW YORK. June 3 (Rec. 11 pm>. Doctors al the Jewish Memorial Hospital announced today that they are satisfied that leukaemia, a deadly blood disease, was not communicable. They based their report on an experiment conducted with a young leukaemia victim and a life-term convict a year ago. A patient, an eight-year-old girl, was dying of the disease Qnd the convict volunteered to exchange his blood with the girl’s in an effort to save her life.’ Doctors linked the veins of the girl and the convict, who exchanged 16 pints of blood. The girl, however, died some days later. The New York State Governor, Mr. Thoirias Dewey, pardoned the convict. Since then the doctors have given the ex-convict bimonthly examinations, but found no trace of the disease
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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 June 1950, Page 5
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