PLAGUE IN MANCHURIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13333, 23 March 1911, Page 5

PLAGUE IN MANCHURIA.

OUTBREAK TRACEABLE TO HUNTERS. Press • Association.—Telegraph .-Copyright. Received March 23, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, March 22. Dr Morrison, writing to the Times irom Kharbin, reports that the plague has subsided. Tim outbreak was traceable to marmots, which were formerly hunted by the Mongols and Buriats, who recognised the infected animals and left them severely alone. Recently inexperienced Chinese hunters entered the trade, with disastrous results. The disease manifests itelf after the hunters’ return for the winter. The hunters eat the marmots, but there is no direct intestinal infection.