New Weapon To Combat
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Flu
PHYSICIANS of US Navy hold in their hands a new weapon with which they hope they can combat and defeat any future outbreaks of influenza (which killed 21,000.000 people throughout the world after World War I).
The 12th Naval District headquarters has reported that animal experiments of its laboratory research on influenza “are sufficiently promising to warrant expec tation that application to human infec tion will be successful.”
The new agent is an anti-serum in haled directly into the lungs, in the form of a very fine mist. While it remains in the lung tissue it neutralises any influenza virus breathed in by the patient, said Commander Albert Paul Krueger, director of the naval laboratory research unit which perfected the process.