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