Show I IOn Farmers Get Warning On Sleeping Steeping Sickness By County Agent Paul Grimshaw Farmers In the county are warned to be on the lookout for symptoms of equine sometimes called sleeping sleeping sleepIng sleep Ing sickness or brain fever lever In their horses Grand county has had several several sever sever- I Ial al reported cases of brain fever in horses In recent weeks Sleeping Sleep ing sickness is a virus disease spread by such biting insects as mosquitos and horse flies It Lt was first thought to be only only on ly a disease of horses and mules but humans can also contract it t with fatal lata 1 results There have been over cases eases In humans reported in California The current epidemic of f human hu hu- man encephalitis which has taken the lives of numerous folks in the San Joaquin Joaqun Valley VaHey of California is mute evidence of mans man's susceptibility to the di dl sease Mr ir Grimshaw urges farmers and st stockmen who have had animals die from brain fever lever to dispose of orf them by burning with oil or by foy deep burial This will willaid willaid aid considerably in helping to control further spread of the di sease usually continues into the late fall fail or early winter season U If the disease continues InGrand InGrand In InGrand Grand county it may become more wide spread in the next three of four months depending upon how the situation is met here I |