The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-11-28
ESTABLISHED 1870
Foot and Mouth Disease
Greatest Danger to Country


,stip on the foot-an d-mouth disease and save:
The outbreak OF oot-and disease has already
an large that 1t Is evident that most active
ss eradicate it Cases have far apart Iowa
and Massachusetts, and at the t4 Of this writing Nov lO 3
States been York Pennsy
ysn Indiana Illinois, Michigan Ohio Wisconsin, Maryland
Rhode Island New Jersey and Delaware shipments
livestock from these States absolutely prohibited
tc hides straw hay etc. be thoroughly dnected
fore they be moved in interstate vuenc
and affected present outbreak serious
than the five previous which occurred
United States
These previous outbreaks have been sufficiently
femiarize farmers with symptoms the
render fully alive the losses that when permit
ted gain firm foohod One of its dangerous
its extreme congousness Not only it be
directly animal another but be transported
fodder picked up from the ground and carried the country
cats chickens through
Cases have already found in which it
disease spread by the curiosity of farmers inspect suffering
animals They returned from these visits communicate the dis
to their previously healthy herds
The oontagousness disease explains
Federal authorities in quarannng such large The practice
is to clap blanket quarantine the State in which
has been found and hn by careful investigation de-
infected When animal suffering from
disease discovered in herd the whole at
slaughtered Otherwise would remain dangerous of
lection and the entire community 1t is customary
to appoint an herd OnehaH of the
praised value paid the by the Federal Government and
the State The animals buried in
deep trench hides slasbed make it useless for to
dig again. and the saturated with quckme In
this manner previous outbreak been completely sas
every hope that this will be the this
The chief danger that there be infected herds whose
reported to the proper authorities Farmers
urged both r their protection and duty to their
neghbors Immediately all OF suspicious mouths
lameness among their stock.
mouth disease affects chiefly CATTLE sheep goats and
wine but there number of other animals OF less
Importance also susceptible Occasionally human beings
affected the majority instances the disease is not severe
in the Children however become dangerously
i'll if their milk is infected.
The first indications chill followed by
high fever temperature rising rapidly sometimes to LOG deg r
In vesices about the size of appear in the mou
tongue the ide of the cheeks and on the
gums These vesces contain yeowsh watery fluid They
spread disease advances aud the animal to open an
shut its mouth uneasy with characteristic smacking sound
day first of the erupons In the mouth
similar appear the feet which swollen RED no
this the animal frequently persists in lying
down. develop with much rapdy In the case
the udder and frequently the eats are affected oy
similar eruption.
Once the disease established becomes painful Tor
the animal that food frequently refused altogether
hang mouth aud flesh lost with astonishing
rapdy When the udde seriously affected the milk becomes
contaminated and serious results to sucking anu
young pigs In mild from 10 to ~ days may orng
apparent recovery be greatly extended
over an recovery by implies real cne Ihe
animal carry the virus in its blood for year or more anu
liable during spread the contagon or to experience
ITSELF The mortality considering the
the disease occasions SMALL being
by some authorities at per cent although frequently much
than this The mortality however, by no means
the real losses by the disease No revenue Is
from herds the of darymen an
footandmouth disease frequently means that their ou"e
peely ruined cattle that have become SICK wiz
the disease naturally value breeding animals
however, impossible get rid Of the disease by Ignoring
only possible remedy infected herds dnect the prem
ises, and begin again :,