WAR AGAINST INFLUENZA.
A NEW PREVENTATIVE. TESTS BY BRITISH WAR OFFICE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copvriornt. LONDON, August 25. The Weekly Dispatch says tire War Office is testing a new Influenza preventative discovered by Professor Besredka, an expert in tropical fevers. It contains a neutral beef blood serum which stimulates the natural resistance to infection, also serum organisms which infect the broncho respiratory tract. The Swiss Army already has tested the preparation, which is swallowed, not inoculated. It is claimed that influenza cases have been diminished UJ per cent. One of London’s largest banks and several big business houses have decided to provide their employees with the serum. An Auckland medical practitioner said last night that'Professor Besredka was a noted authority on vaccines. If the new treatment were a success, it would he a notable step in the war against influenza, and it appeared that the professor’s treatment was something absolutely new.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19664, 26 August 1935, Page 7
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