Officials act to secure cattle-plague virus

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...

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...

On the Cattle-Plague in Its Epidemiological Aspects

of an alkaloid resembling quinine as a constituent in the living organism or not. It makes no difference whatever to the question how we ought to treat cholera, whether we believe that cholera-collapse is dependent on spasm of the capillary ramifications of the pulmonary artery, or find as cogent reasons for adopting a contrary conclusion. We give alkalies in acute rheumatism (if we give them) ...

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Pathogenicity of duck plague and innate immune responses of the Cherry Valley ducks to duck plague virus

Duck plague caused by duck plague virus (DPV) is an acute and contagious disease. To better understand the pathogenic mechanism of duck plague virus in ducklings, an infection experiment was performed. Our results showed that typical symptoms were observed in the infected ducklings. DPV could replicate quickly in many tissues, leading to pathological lesions, especially on the spleen. Real-time...