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Show Fly Is Paralysis Carrier Discovery that common flies .carry the virus of infantile paralysis paral-ysis has been made by Drs. John L. . Paul and James D. Trask at Yale university medical school. It is now evident that poliomyelitis poliomye-litis (infantile paralysis), which cripples 10,000 persons and kills from 500 to 1,000 every year, is a disease of the intestinal tract as well as the spinal cord, and that flies may carry the virus from 'sewage. The discovery of Drs. Paul and Trask makes the common house fly more than ever an enemy to ihealth and even to life itself, ' especially among children. |