British Microbe Hunters -- This is a scene in Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton Downs, Salisbury Plain, England, where British health authorities disclosed tonight that one of their researchers George A. Bacon, died of pneumonic plague -- dread Black Death which ravaged Europe in Middle Ages. White-garbed laboratory assistants are shown at work in vaccine unit. Bacon, authorities say, was working on pneumonic and bubonic plague. Forty persons known to have had recent contact with Bacon are under rigid surveillance and dosed with antibiotic drugs.

Associated Press · [ca. August 1962]

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