. Eggs and you Jig tick (Smit/i). /Ksi liatclied operations bits of blood may be car- ried directly from a southern to a northern animal thus inoculating the latter with the disease. In the fall of 1898 two cases occurred in the practice of Dr. Ambler of Chatham, N. Y. The owner had his animals dehorned in December and soon afterward two fatal cases of Texas fever developed. The Piroplasma and the characteristic lesions were present. Inquiry revealed the interesting fact that the two animals which .sickened and died were dehorned immedi- ately after two imported southern cattle. The owner was
. Eggs and you Jig tick (Smit/i). /Ksi liatclied operations bits of blood may be car- ried directly from a southern to a northern animal thus inoculating the latter with the disease. In the fall of 1898 two cases occurred in the practice of Dr. Ambler of Chatham, N. Y. The owner had his animals dehorned in December and soon afterward two fatal cases of Texas fever developed. The Piroplasma and the characteristic lesions were present. Inquiry revealed the interesting fact that the two animals which .sickened and died were dehorned immedi- ately after two imported southern cattle. The owner was not aware of the fact at the time that these were southern bred cattle, as he had bought them of a dealer in Vermont. More recently another case of this disease produced in the same way has been reported. § 269. Symptoms. In the acute type of the disease which occurs during the hot summer months, the onset is sud- den and usually all animals exposed to the same infection together come down at the same time. The first indication of the disease is a rise of temperature, at first higher in the after-
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