Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-02
QUARANTINE ON
NEBRASKA STOCK
SOON TAKEN OFF
Declaration Suspected Disease
Is Stomatitis Causes Sew
eral Local Embargoes
to Be Lifted.
ST. JOSEPH TO ACT MONDAY
other States Expected to Fol-
low Suit in Short
Order.
HOW TO TREAT AILMENT

Washington, Dec. l.-(Special Tel
= egram. .)-Careful and systematic OBJ
servation of the Nebraska cattle
found last week in the Kansas City
stock yards suffering with sore
mouths has failed to reveal certain
typical symptoms of foot and mouth
disease, according to the Bureau oi
Animal Industry, United States De-
partment of Agriculture. The spe-
cialists therefore are of the opinion
that the disease is vesicular stoma.
tits, a mouth ailment which ordinar-
lily affects horses and sometimes af-
fects cattle. The most striking symp-
tom of this disease is the occurrence
of biisters and sores on the tongue
and other portions OF the mouth.
Not of Serious Character.
This disease, while undoubtedly
contagious, is not of great economic
importance, as animals ordinarily re-
cover from it in eight to ten days.
Vesicular stomatitis is known in
Europe and South America and has
been found occasionally in the United
States. The present outbreak, how
ever, is the most extensive yet noted
in this country. The specialists of the
department. therefore, are advising
state officials in whose territory the
disease is found to impose local quar-
antines to prevent its spread. They
advise all owners and handlers of
horses and cattle, particularly livery
men, managers of stock yards and
breeders, to separate sick from well
animals, to clean up and disinfect
their premises, and to wash out the
mouths of sick animals with weak
solution of permanganate of potash
or picric acid.
What Experts Find.
The belief of the specialists that the
malady is not foot and mouth disease
is based upon the fact that persistent
observation of sick animals and ex-
periments in inoculating animals with
the infection at Washington failed to
reveal certain typical symptoms
which would be expected in any case
.-of,fnot andsmotith. disease!The slob-
boring, and blisters and sores are sim
.. liar in appearance to the mouth con-
-ditions produced by foot and mouth
disease, but in none of the sick ami
mails examined has there been found
any soreness of the feet, which is
common symptom of foot and mouth
disease. Moreover many horses have
this particular ailment, and horses
have not been observed to contract
foot and mouth disease in any of the
previous outbreaks in the United
States. Hundreds of hogs exposed to
the disease and in close association
with the sick animals show no signs
of the malady, and this is regarded
as significant because during the re-
cent outbreaks of foot and mouth dis
ease hogs were as susceptible to foot
and mouth disease as were cattle.
Sheep Not Affected.
Exposed sheep also fail to show
the disease, yet those cloven foot ami
mails are also susceptible to foot and
mouth infection. This bears out the
diagnosis, since vesicular stomatitis
affects only horses and cattle and not
hogs and sheep.
Finally, the low percentage of ami
mails infected in each of the herds,
only a small proportion out OF some
hundreds, would indicate that this all
ment is not the highly contagious foot
and mouth disease which once it is
introduced into herd quickly affects
practically 100 per cent of the cattle
and hogs.
Where vesicular stomatitis is pres
cnt among cattle and horses, immedi-
ate steps should be taken to control
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