An Outbreak of Trichinosis in Garhwal
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On the night of the 8th " Phagan " (19th February 1907), when there was snow in the fields, some wild pigs came down from a forest in Mouza Tongasi and dug up a field of wheat after removing the snow from the ground. On the following morning some people of the upper part of this village went in search of them with a gun ; eventually three boars were tracked down. Two small ones and one a very fine large one. The two former ran away, but the latter stopped at the edge of a wooded ravine. Kedar Singh fired and shot it. Some men of Tongasi village were grazing their cattle close by, and they all assembled when they heard that the boar had been shot. The meat was distributed among 18
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 42 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016