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Show Undulant Fever Peril in Infected Horses Indianapolis. New sources of dangerous undulant fever have been discovered in horses, members of the Society So-ciety of American Bacteriologists Bacteriol-ogists learned at their annual an-nual meeting here. The cases of two children who developed serious undulant fever following contact with an infected horse, were presented by Drs. Charles M. Carpenter and Ruth A. Boak of the University of Rochester Roch-ester school of medicine and dentistry. den-tistry. These scientists and Dr. A. W. Deem of Ohio Stale university reported finding signs of undulant fever in horses. Undulant fever, known filso as Malta fever, infectious abortion of cattle, and, according to latest scientific sci-entific terminology, brucellosis, is a serious, sorr,et,rr:es fatal malady characterized by the fact that the ! fever goes up and dovn in waves j hence the name undulant. |