Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — Lingering Infection. [ARTICLE]

Lingering Infection.

New York Herald. If the reported results of recenl researches in diphtheria by the bac- j teriolog'ual bureau of the New : York Health Department are con. firmed they are extremely impnr tant. The power to transmit the infection of diphtheria, it is found, j lingers sometimes for as much as■: twelve days and occasionally three or four weeks in patients who have made an apparently perfeefr recovery from this most deadly disease.