TYPHUS RESEARCH.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 23 May 1922, Page 5

TYPHUS RESEARCH.

HOPE FOR VACCINE. - Per Press Association—Copyright. .LONDON, May 21. Dr Walter Davenport, of the American Relief Administration, announces that Dr Kritch, woman director of the Sokolnichersky Hospital Laboratory, discovered the typhus germ, isolating the coccus, which is disc or biscuit, shaped, and much like the pneumonecoccus. Typhus germ was found in the brain tissue and spleen of 150 eases of typhus an hour after death.

Ihe innoculution of guinea, pigs invariably produced symptoms of typhus. It is hoped that vaccine will develop from Dr Kritch’s discovery.