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Show Foot and Mouth Disease. The foot and mouth disease (epizootic (epi-zootic apatha), which ha3 appeared after an absence of thirty years, is propagated by germs and Is highly contagious. Porsons carry tho germs on their clothing or shoes, dogs can transport them nnd they can bo taken into the systems of n healthy herd which passes over tho same road that a sick animal passed over a fow hours previous. Cattlo aro not tho only animals subject to It, for It Is contracted by sheep, swino, horaos, poultry, and jomulmes by man. |