Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-05-19 | Page 25 | Doctor Warns of Another Polio Epidemic

i Docor Doctor Warns Wars Of Another Polio Polo Epidemic While Wie there tere will be more cases caes of of infantile infante paralysis in n Salt Lake City during the tle late ate summer and fall fal there will vill wi not be nearly as many as last ast year Dr Louis Luis R. R Geb Geb- hardt professor of bacteriology ogy University of Utah medIcal med med- ical cal og school told members of the he Exchange club at their weekly luncheon Friday at the te Hotel Utah Uth We hope we know more about offering some preventive ive tive t c measures asserted Dr Gebhardt The housefly we know carries the virus but the most dangerous carriers are arc arche the he blowfly and the Dr Gebhardt said the in influx influx in in- flux nu of ot persons into Utah Undoubtedly undoubtedly un Un- resulted in some of them hem bringing the virus with wit them tem and pointed out that tat polio is contracted a great deal ical more In populated areas