Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — FLY SPREADS DEADLY GERM [ARTICLE]

FLY SPREADS DEADLY GERM

Dr. Flexner and Aid of Rockefeller Institute Discover Disseminator of Infantile Disease.

New York. —Experiments carried on In the laboratories’ of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the virus of infantile paralysis Is carried from the sick to the well by the common house fly. It had been really understood the poisonous element of the disease is transferred from those suffering from it to persons brought in contact with, the patients; also that healthy persons carry the virus from the sick to the well. But in thinly settled sections of the country the disease has spread in a manner that could not be accounted for by any of the foregoing means of transmission. This led to the suspicion that the common fly was the carrier, and resulted ( in experiments which have been and are still being carried on by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the institute, assisted by Paul F. Clark, Ph. D.