SLEEPING SICKNESS.
ANOTHER CARRIER DISCOVERED. Another carrier of the dreaded sleeping sickness has been discovered. Major E. E. Austen, Keeper of the Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, examined a number of tsetse flics from the Belgian Congo and found among them a hitherto unknown species, which, it has been proved, carries the parasite which induces sleeping sickness.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17687, 16 April 1929, Page 10
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63SLEEPING SICKNESS. Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17687, 16 April 1929, Page 10
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