Show Conquest of Distemper r May l Protect Animals Complete success in protecting dogs and other animals ag against distemper distemper dis dis- dis- dis temper temper- is claimed in the final report report re ye- port of the Field distemper council of which the duke of Portland is president as the result of ten years' years research and subsequent enterprise of ol commercial laboratories A virus a vaccine and an antiserum have been produced ed and a healthy dog can be given lasting protection against distemper infection by the inoculation of vaccine followed a fortnight later by one of virus If the antiserum used alone is given sufficiently early in the disease it will lessen the severity of an attack of distemper A survey of the results with the virus vaccine-virus method show that where exposure to infection was certain the incidence of distemper among foxhounds belonging to 23 hunting packs was only 14 per cent and the death rate 03 per cent Without inoculation inoculation in in- the incidence among young foxhounds in this country is nearly per cent and the death rate frequently frequently frequently fre fre- fre- fre 50 and sometimes more than 75 per cent As true distemper has recently been found to occur among fur bearing bearing bear bear- ing tag animals related to the dog such as the silver fox or to the ferret such as fitch mink and fisher these methods methods methods meth meth- will have immediate value where these animals are farmed |