The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-17
The root And Mouth Disease.

IDe IOOt anu IDOuOh oiocooO "AN
has recently infected several OF the
counties In our state has reached a.
farming proportions, and IL has been
found necessary on the part OF the
state Livestock Sanitary Board TO
prepare a circular OF some length, set
ting forth the character OF the iniec-
tion, so that the people might UNDER
stand and at the same time be able 10
take caution.
The name of this disease Is Aphth
Gus fever and it is an acute, iniectios
and highly contagious disease al
fecting cloven-footed animals. 1t oc-
ours most frequently among cattie'
sheep, goats and swine 1t has also,
in some rare instances, occurred In
horses and some observations denote
that dogs. cats and even poultry may
be affected by it. The large herolv-
oria. as found in geological gardens
lcamels. giraffes, deer of all kinds and
e1epbants-are susceptible. The dis
ease is also transmissible to man; such |
transmission results most frequently |
in children and from the use OF the
raw milk of diseased COWS. Aphthous
fever In man is usually not danger
Gus malady but it is recorded that IN
some outbreaks there have been many
deaths.
The disease is an old one but It's
most extensive and destructive out
breaks have occurred during the past
two hundred years. The several IN
vasions of European herds and hooks
by foot-and-mouth disease have come
from the East toward the West, have
a been very extensive, covering great
4, regions, involving several countries,
and have sometimes persisted many
wears. The invasion of England which
beoan at about the beginning OF the
g second third OF the past century con-
). tinued nearly fifty years. The Ger
Il man invasion which began in 1888 con-
: tinued seventeen years. In lS91-los9
more than |, 900, 600 animals were at
l. tackled in Holland. There was a small
d outbreak of foot and-mouth disease in
O Western Massachusetts. and in East
. ern New York in 1870, and an outbreak
IN New England, centered around Bos-
y ton. in 1923. The latter outbreak
y involved 244 herds in four states and
u necessitated the destruction OF 4,Ilz
l. animals.
n The rate of mortality from foot anc
mouth disease is low but the destruc-
~ tion of values and the losses resulting
VI from it are high. 1t was estimated II
OF 1875 by Fleming, the great English au
be thority, that the losses to the farmer
rt of England from foot-and mouth dis
u ease then amounting, upon a very con
servative basis of appraisal, to 10,
lo 600, 900 pounds sterling 1865, 200, OoOl
Id The loss upon each herd attacked b
RS this disease amounts to from ~ pc
nv cent. to so per cent. of its value. In
consideration of this fact in conne'
tion with the knowledge that foot an
ns mouth disease spreads with such n
he markable facility that, If uncontrolle
en- by public measures, 1t may attac
es, from 25 to IS per cent. OF the herds
e. a district will give an idea as TO u
d. potentialities for harm that accompar
'ry outbreaks of this disease and will e.
OF plain why farmers in countries tn
have passed through visitations
led this plague dread 1t more than al
on other scourge of cattle
AL In 1871, about 70e,O 900 cattle we're
ar- tackled by foot and mouth disease
ave England. The average loss on ca
a. bovine animal attacked was &3,
ne, about $40, 900, 900. An outbreak
un. about the same dimensions occurr
; OF the. same year in France; this outbre
MS was repressed but reinfection beg
Is in 1898 and continued to increase
lou spread until 1900, after which 1t
The fought back until 1906 when there "
arm again a considerable increase. d.
OF ing twelve years, up to 1900, l6,OO
Fer 600 animals were attacked by foot-ai
the mouth disease in Germany. The 10
,e OF es to German farmers from this ca
icro amounted to we'll above 500, 900,
!; al and the cost to the government
YARD measures applied to control the
acid ease was about $4,000, 900. Dur
Mr. the past few years, most OF the co
loss tries OF continental Europe, except
'arn- Scandinavia, have had TO keep u
r his constant, difficult apd expensive v
the fare against foot and mouth diseas
are In district or a country where
and mouth disease exists there
by j walls, and must continue, until
and disease is eradicated, state of un
links and uncertainty with relation to
ighiy operations affecting livestock.
liant one can foresee when his herd vii
}. In attacked, every animal brought
ID by premises where the disease has exi
IN is liable to develop the disease;
purchase, not only OF animals or
pened ceptible species, but of hay, St
larry manure or even OF grain, II in
Titled that may have been on infected p
ises, may introduce the contaR
estlng The combined unrest, annoyance
rs as loss that result under such cir
ration stances destroy all security and r
In and lead to great restriction In
istake ~ - o,d oattla kaaOinU lnata