Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-11-06
yuIl GOATS MILK
FaDts Of Practical Interest to All
n Who Raise Goats.
Mslta !l-ser Is transmitted by Ami
mails Milk, and Has Affected Fam
lilies on Goat Ranches in Texas
and New Mexico.

Washington .-Scientists O. the bu-
reau of animal industry have COM
piled bulletin which is of practical
interest to all who raise goats and to
such invalids as have been prescribed
Z goats milk as diet.
proofs have conclusively establish
THAT the transmission of fever
WIN yariously as Malta" noun
f'slow typhoid" or by certain
designations, to man, is accom-
by the milk Of infected goats.
h, observation In Texas and
Mexico show that the disease has
ays made its appearance among
ople connected with goat rails
IL. Entire families have been
taken sick with it on goat ranches.
he sickness appears usually after the
Kidding season, during the months of
April, May and June, when the peo-
Z pie are in closer contact with the
& goats.
Observations have also shown that
over the border In Mexico goat
orders are not nearly 50 liable to the
iseassk Conclusions have been drawn
aas~this Is not due to any natural
Immunity but to the fact that the
Mexicans always boil the milk before
drinking it. while the Americans use
iteSaw seqr
sRsss gene-..Ge. opinion has prevailed
kthe United States is free from
talta fever, and that the disease has
konly occurred through importations
However, 1t now seems evident tina
the Malta fever has existed in Texas
and New Mexico for at least 81
years. The fever takes its nam,
from Great Britains island in tn,
Mediterranean, where the disease ha
been exceedingly prevalent among
British soldiers and sailors. Its oC
currence in tropical and subtropica
localities has been noted in almos
every country. A number Of case
have been reported among our sol
diers who had just returned from tn
Philippine islands.
Pasteurization of infected milk TO
20 minutes at 145 degrees Fahrenheit
is sufficient to destroy the organism
which transmits the disease. There
fore, milk pasteurization. for the dc
struction of typhoid and tuberculosis
germs will also be free from Malta fe
yer germ.
The symptoms of human beings ar
usually pronounced and give rise to
more or less severe affection. TIL
most striking symptom is an attac
of fever with periods of normal ten
peratures. The duration of these pr
RODS varies considerably during tn
\ disease. The fever may be remitten
or intermittent; it may be continuous
4 ly high or low, and at all stages c
the disease the type of the fever ma
change. 1t may be very acute froI
? the onset, the fever setting in wit
chills and rise of temperature asst
ciated with severe headache and PAL
m the back, and general i'll feeling
The pulse and respirations are ger
orally affected In accordance with tn
height of the fever. The course {
the disease may extend for from 81
& weeks up to year, and cases hav
even been observed in which relapse
have occurred for three years. l
human beings the mortality is est
mated at three per cent.
In animals the course of the diseas
always appears to be protracted. Case
have been noted in goats that exten
over period of more than q yea
The prognosis In animals is alway
favorable as far as the health is COZ
cerned. But although the disease hs
no active effect on goats, its cradle
ton must be considered for the publ
health, and it is particularly importai
since there has been a tendency r
Gently among physicians to advise I'll
drinking of goats milk for childre
and invalids.