Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-01-24 | Aphthous Fever, Scourge of the Cattle Yards

I I t Th 4 1 1 I A r 4 c 1 t c t i r rV I V 1 at Z d se r the United States author authoring RECE ng ties vero called upon to combat t tODd G L ODd nod nn defeat lt fever the deadly ODd and dreaded scourge of ot the cattle ranges nieces yards All the tremendous tr re reo fourC s of ot the national government were lere exerted to cut off otI In detail the mysterious forces Curce of ot this unseen yet remorseless enemy of ot o r greatest single source of oC national wealth for or no DO other kind of o pro production equals In lii value the output of oC our tock stock sl Including as OB n It docs dols over oer a dozen Important branches of oC sub Rub and byproducts any one of oC them involving ing Jn In n a trade mounting far up In la tho tie tens ee of oC millions The live stock trade of oC the tho United States In a single Bingle ear runs close clos to n a billion of ot dollars and when all nil this has ba been devoured there yet remains an nn In Invested vested capital of OC over ocr n a billion more In tho form torm of ot actual live Iho stock or products evolved colci from Crom the varied various branches of oC Industry In primarily depend depending ing on cloven cloen foot toot animals In this class are oro Included cattle sheep and nn nfl hogs hogg hO I for tor each and ned every cery variety of oC animal that walks salki on a cleft delt or divided hoof Is sub HUIJ subject to the dread foot Coot anti ami mouth dis db disease disease ease tU II Two Tivo Year In IPOS but hut two Important outbreaks of oC foot toot and mouth as fever teer IB is called coiled lit Iii the vernacular were chroni chronicled dell cled In the United States The fhe first was waa In lii tho the Middle cud ami caused only local disaster and watt was promptly stumped out I by sudden BuddeD extermination of ot the cattle In Involved The second sC oud attack occurred In tho th Middle lo Atlantic states and led to an nn embargo of oC exporting cattle from Crom two great seaports and the tho destruction of ot thousands tho of ot dollars dollar l worth of ot stock tock In both cases canes tho the United States authorities tool took Immediate charge of o tho the situation uund the thi national treasury was called upon to pay the owner the tho value of ot the cattle Infested and destroyed Before detailing tho the appearance of ot this thin dread cattle disease which causes a con constant stant standing ex pen DO amounting to sev Be millions annually the tile origin of o this epidemic IB is especially Interesting The first outbreaks of oC toot fool and mouth month disease were simply termed by farmers hundreds of oC years rears back buel and tho thio disease lIo every oer other known scourge o but two t 10 originated In lu the crowded crol sections of ot Con Cen Central Contral AsIa Aula 1 h t V tZ zy 7 iZ I Cattle plagues were Just ju t ns nil frequent In Inthe Inthe inthe the Middle lI Ages ses as those frightful epi epidemics of or diseases among men that frequently swept ewelt tho the entire known globe starting t In far fur Eastern Asia At 11 among the crowded hordes of oC the linn line steppe and swinging from nation to nation until It died out In the tue Arctic regions not from the tue cold col but merely from CroUl lack of oC more material to creep upon ullon The foot oot and mouth disease likewise ns RII fever teer epizootic aph tha Infectious eczema epizootic Is eo so far as science today Is III concerned a n closed book both as ns to specific germ Jerm or bacillus which causes the scourge and aud the tho cause cUU o or cure curc thereof Science Cnn Can Do Little All that modern science can actually do oven even to this day against foot toot and mouth disease Is u a primitive and brutal extermination extermination nation of ot tho the victims of ot the tho fever before beCore other creatures have become bl Infected by It iL v Q n celebrated scientist of ot Ger Germany many and today tollo perhaps tho the man most experienced In Ie combating foot toot and lell mouth disease tried Inoculating healthy cattle with Injections of ot Infected 1 material and produced Immunity lu In n a great majority of oC his cases but thu animals thus treated are sources of ot contagion lolI during durin their III Ill Illness ness and actually this Inoculation would of the C A m VA nn Z i ww t i A L F j I e f iI iII I o ir i I r tt ji J lx t u r n AV t w j tD 4 a a f f t tr l r t c cf MJ W f i r Vl c If j 3 J Jk J r g k M o I I l r I rl J s M 1 kr jJ i 31 I 4 to 1 r k E rj M t l f I w rl r 1 i t I iY li i i J f j fh i cJ IJ i J y f t J q 1 1 j t r j I L kY kYA A I t J 1 1 ja jaI I A 1 i V merely spread the tho disease and a 1111 serve Sere to it more In Infected dis districts districts Hoot and branch foot root neil and mouth as ns It were m re nil all cattle In those these United States once Infected and and Indeed when clearly subjected to Infection are ure slaughtered with no attempt to lo euro cure or alleviate In Germany however the disease has been endemic for Cor SO 80 3 years nell and has bas cost tho empire a n hundred millions of dollars enough money mOlle to tt Emperor Wll helms cherished and vaunted war navy li In Germany tho Is MO so widespread that slaughtering the animals would ruin tim farmers of oC the tho nation so that atlon which Is what Inoculation process prO esq practically ll amounts to has hns been ben tried with fairly good results While such a n dangerous too foo to cattle sheep goats hogs hO 5 and aliI every other ani animal mel mal that treads on cloven foot oot the thu mor mortality of ot fever feor Is not an us high UK ilK with some other othor diseases l ellsas It runs from ten per Iler cent as ns usual 11 figure to as ns high ns us CO GO per cent where hay has hasI occurred for ono one attack of oC foot toot anti and mouth disease does not con confer for Immunity I on tho the sufferer from rom later Intel attacks of oC r t 1 vr 0 f R r 1 t I r I ib t lt f ff 11 JJ J I J I CoV I the lIle fever In Germany G In 1890 im there thero were lero of ol known cases actually located and lieu Ilet no so as nil to enter cuter into luto the thu statistics of ot the empire cattle sheep arid and goats and nn l SOS hogs bogs During Durl l till year the tue loot foot nod and mouth disease was rampant In France Italy Belgium Aus Switzerland and Iud Bulgaria In 1 1 In jn England 1 alone the tue losses from rom cattle Infected with fever er ran 1111 as ns high ns as and com corn compared pared to the tho United States England pro produces produces duces s 80 little as ns to bo be not worth the thu comparison from a u financial view viewpoint viewpoint point polut Germ Cerni Cannot Bo no Cnn J t Tho The germ of the thc has hns ha been sought ht by many scientists aunt and In every known manner ma Numerous u attempts a have been heen made to cultivate the tile germ and stain It BO so 0 as us to get ct n a suitable culture for tor the tho microscope Careful experiment has huas hn demon demonstrated that tho bacillus will vIii puss easily ens II through h nil oil tho tile standard tillers anti aud even through somo some which nt at enor enol enormous unous expense were especially Invent Invented ed ell to catch and Isolate the tiny tiDY and slip rrt t r dp G Perd Zo e ea a h e of c pery germ of ot fever its ItA size must ho bo indefinitely minute It Is 11 a Hill even among a n class chins 8 that can cnn hang bang by br the tho billion In la a n drop rop of ot fluid on tho the point of oC a n needle s Cnn Can lie De Infected While human beings do O not get et the die dis disease dl ease ense from eating the meat ment of o animals animal mirroring from tram foot root and month mouth disease they readily take Infection from the milk milk will Invariably convey coney the disease to human beIngs being and especially to children Regions He where the fever prevails habitually show abow thousands o ot of causes especially In children ch who nat naturally nn t arc are greater grenter milk drinkers than adults n There Is in In human beluga beings n a high fever feer and Intense pain anti and difficulty In lu swallowing Within two days the patient el breaks out with blisters In the mouth anti on tho tim lingers These cause e dangerous death rarely comes cOllies to the thc human being from fever In fact tact this disease up the tue findings of o modern pathology which has demonstrates demonstrated that the human animal action Is best fitted to light any nn and every germ erm of or disease lele known to medicine The vast majority of oC diseases common to both hoth man nina and nud the brutes lied a n far readier prey in Inthe tho the lower animal Works Work Sw The work of or tho the government once the tho dread foot toot and nud mouth disease has hns been reported from any district la lit I swift anti unel relentless An advance guard front from the veterinary department hastens to look the tue suspects over oCr and make maim a 1 path pathological test as ns to the tho true nature of o the tho trouble tro ble If the verdict Is In the tho live the national government Immediately promulgates a n quarantine order that shuts up tho suspected territory In n a net act through which no means of oC contagion can cnn escape This Is followed up iy y tho the speedy or nr orrl rl 1 of oC men mell who after killing the In Infected animals sweep the stables feed I i ie t j j I e v r F i tf R t j J I i t S i j jj j j 4 f lol lolI I S i Ii u I kl t 4 a t I t j jd d Y a 2 ec 1 J c S t log Ing In places nUll anti oven even suspected meadows mcadow with disinfectants Into streams thought capable of or having basing been Infected for formaldehyde mal ehde Is 13 poured and not Dol n a vestige Is left leCt unburned of ot the tho hay bay oats ont corn cornor or any other food which could possibly have been muzzled over by b the tho d en ed animals No Xo especial hardship Is worked by this slaughtering uC of Infected animals and tho the stern alem destruction of oC every cery possible source of ot contagion couto on Tho The national government tins has sensibly and justly taken the stand that what tho the constituted authorities dc do chic must be destroyed for tor tho common good of oC the natIon should bo be paid for tor out of oC the tho common funds So the diconso disconsolate late farmer or stock herder whose vale valuable able oble animals havo bno fallen a n prey to fever t Cr Is IR not nol only protected protect ll from future Infection but Is promptly paid a n fair market price for tor the tho animals de tie destroyed Difficulties Arc Are Tremendous Trem n on Tremendous difficulty Is Js sometimes en encountered encountered encountered countered In getting the diseased ant ani animals lID I mals nials Into such quarters that they the cnn can be killed Even Eren greater difficulty has been experienced In its getting I labor to excavate the vast graves which must bo he dug du deep dee to hold the carcases of ot the slaughtered animals and to put an effect effective iwo ive layer larer of ot earth between the living and an anthe the Infection that can enn so swiftly be ab nb absorbed b from Crom the dead It Is only In lu rare cases In fn this country that the disease progresses pr to a n stage sla e where the animals froth troth at nt the month Usually a high fever over sometimes as much muchas as UR degrees has hns been encountered In foot ool and aDd mouth disease but where the deadly Inflammation of oC the germ hns hag reached d this extreme high hl h point recovery re co Is itt out of oJ the question owing to serious chemical changes In the blood among them n a vicious tendency to coagulation The final thought In the pathological search after the germ and the nature of oC fever oer Is Js that thal the bacillus b must bo ho some sonto infinitesimally in minute Inn to vegetable parasite which defies the ordinary tests for or germs like those thoe of or consumption ty typhoid typhoid fever reer etc ete Its It minuteness Is probably probably ably ahl the cause of oC the Site tremendous ease case with winch which the disease can cnn spread nfl Itself Nothing known to medical science Is so soe easy einy e ilY of oC propagation as ns foot ool aud nud mouth disease Carried Doctors Doctor It can be carried on the tho Insides of oC the tho very ery clothing of ot tho the attendants em employed employed to exterminate It BO so that in re rc recent recent cent epidemic the tho physicians and ant all eli at nt attendants t n nots have hao been compelled com to wear Dig big waterproof cloaks and nn have hae them themselves themselves selves sponged off oct In formaldehyde to prevent carrying the tho disease to healthy h hers herds under their inspection It can linger In a n farmers beard blard or In his hla long hair for tor weeks and can cnn cross tho the ocean in a n diseased hide bide torn months before oil off o the tho steer which died sick of foot toot and mouth disease So 50 that combating this the tho smallest of nil all germs germ which lieu apparently tho greatest gr ease case for or transporting Itself and au auIt F its It deadly activity medical science lenco 6 confronts a 11 task tusk of ot tremendous difficulty Herds In good shape tipper apparently cathy with op sIgns t of oC Illness I speedily I become d drop Mop olt of or in their fees feed feeding lag ing and oUd die from what the tho average farm tarm farmer er And cattleman Is disposed cd to tu term distemper Cattle are subject to many can leers ced end foot diseases dl that closely cl clI resemble foot toot and mouth disease and nolI It is highly difficult cult for or any layman lomon however ho eer experienced t tas as os a n cattleman to diagnose fever It Is only after n a certain Amount of oC leeway lee nT has bas been obtained by the ept iV Vj y that suspicion la is aroused not so 60 r much by br the nature and cad symptoms as u the tremendous and rapid increase of or tho the t 1 f fever ten r Thus the tho fever teer always obtains a n abig abig big start nod and this moro more than any other J feature of oC its course cour o In lu the United States demands tho the stern weapon of o complete extermination It 13 is war to the knife bitter bloody end unrelenting that the scientists of oC Un Uncle cle clo Sum Sam must wage on tho scourge of I Ithe the cattle yards yarda ardo for tor thero is at stake our j i enormously profitable and proud position na ns not only the worlds wends granary but also t the supplier of o the roast beef beet of oC old oh Eng M j i land nod and the tho meat ment stuffs depended on by fj J half hAIC n a dozen other nations J I Tb cost of ot the battle battlo runs into mil mU i i lions but the stake stal counts up far above 4 1 a billion of oC dollars So far tar science baa bRI kept the tho upper hand band bat It would only 1 tako take one serious rlou only n a slight f j exercise of ot hesitation hl and indecision to prevent this dread disease from rom invading the vast herds that roam the tho 1 ranges of ot the tho United States Sta In this thia I case CD O eternal vigilance la ls the tho ono one and only oely hope hOllO of oC