Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1911 — Birds Carry Disease. [ARTICLE]

Birds Carry Disease.

Baltimore. —Dr. Francis W. Harley, who has made experiments with pigeons whose throats are diseased, is convinced that birds can spread disease. His wife sat in a hammock several feet from their coop, and two days later contracted diphtheria from which she Is now recovering. One of the pigeons was examined by the health department, which reports It has diphtheria.