New Microbe Report by Honolulu Bacteriologist Dr Walter Hoffman
Honolulu December 18 1896 Dr Walter Hoffman reports on bacteriological investigations linked to a Wing Wo Tai case. He describes postmortem findings a rat and guinea pig inoculations and cultures resembling plague bacilli noting two sudden deaths with plague-like signs yet a formalin treated sample and animal outcomes complicate the conclusion. The evidence supports a very infectious virulent bacterium potentially plague.
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