Show FERRETING OUT THE FLU one day not so very long ago a a doctor walked into his laboratory in the rockefeller foundation I 1 he re peered through the glass door of a fairet cage expect expecting ine to see sec the tiny animal listless and ill from ini in huanya germs with which it hail had been inoculated the doctor got the surprise of a life which lie he had devoted to medical research the stared back at him with bri bright glit vicious eyes dangerously healthy that marked a milestone in a work which began in iko 1920 after the deadly world war I 1 flu epidemic the medical profession knew two things i influenza buenza would strike again in twenty years and no preventative i venta tive had been found for 19 years the doctors worked put but vaccines taken fro from m influenza infected ferrets proved ineffective the vaccinated vaccina ted ferrets died as easily as the others then fate stepped in in november 1939 four ferrets contracted distemper and died fear was felt in the rockefeller labora torie sif the distemper spread all the costly ferrets might die per shots were administered then following the two decades old routine the ferrets were inoculated with the flu virus and they get sick had the long sought solution to flu been found for months the doc tors worked with their new vaccine consisting of distemper and influenza solutions mixed human volunteers were called for tests and it was found that the new vaccine put into their blood 70 times the normal amount of influenza fight ing antibodies the tests still so ko anthe m medical profession never claims success until it is certain beyond question in the meantime hundreds pf af thousands of doses of the new vaccine have been sent to england where an ah influenza plague is a dread pos sivility lity as a result of war conditions soon the world will know definitely whether a certain immunizing i 1 flent for influenza has at last been found I 1 liete is the way private medicine oi 1 is its war against disease nev c ct ends one by one the plagues which have killed so many millions are arc shorn of their menace ex |