Cattle Plague in Egypt in 1903–04–05

The Plague in Egypt

Cattle Plague in China

causes great havoc amongst cattle, being in great part disseminated in cotton cake and other feeding materials obtained from the interior. On the present occasion, cattle plague was introduced in September last into Shanghai from Tanyang on the Grand Canal in three herds of cattle imported by the German military authorities. The first herd consisted of 100 cattle, of which twelve infected anima...

Fertility of Holstein Cattle in a Subtropical Climate of Egypt

The pregnancy results of 17337 inseminations carried out in a dairy herd near Cairo over a period of 12 years were retrospectively analyzed in relation to environmental temperature and temperature-humidity index (THI). The overall average of pregnancy rates to all inseminations was significantly (P

Cattle plague in eighteenth-century England.

T He. social and economic impact of those recurrent human disasters of pre-industrial society ~ plague, famine and war ~ have received considerable attention in recent years. Animal diseases have had much less coverage since they were rarely systematically reported in the past. However, cattle plague, or distemper of the horned cattle as it was commonly known, was the subject of considerable go...

Pharaonic Egypt and the origins of plague

The origins and dispersal of epidemic diseases have been the subject of much speculation (e.g. Zinsser, 1935; Brothwell & Sandison, 1967; McNeill, 1977; McKeown, 1988; Nikiforuk, 1991). Whilst the archaeological excavation of multiple apparently contemporary burials in pits may provide at the least circumstantial evidence for the occurrence of mass death by disease, most infections leave no spe...