Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-03 | Page 1 | Cause of 'Flu' Found and Germ Isolated

CAUSE OF FLU FOUND AND GERM ISOLATED SCHENECTADY N. N Y Feb eb 3 Hopes of thousands of sufferers from epidemic Influenza for a cure or prevention prevention pre pre- of the disease were raised today by DY the announcement of ot the discovery of ot the cause and the Isolation isolation isolation isola isola- tion of the germ 1 The announcement J Is Js made by Dr Simon W. W Flexner director of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research Research Re Re Re- search who attributes s the discovery to Dr Peter K and Dr Frederick Frederick Frederick Fred Fred- erick T. T Gates also of the Institute The isolation will permit experimentation experimentation experimentation with antidotes and anti anti- toxins So small is the germ that it must be magnified 1000 times LImes before it Is seen distinctly under the micro micro- scope The germ lodges in the nose and throat during the first thirty-six thirty hours of influenza infection then attacks the lungs in such a a. way as asto asto asto I to make them susceptible to other germs in the nose and throat notably r those of pneumonia and bronchitis