Show COLLEGE pathologist UR URGES CONTROL FOR encephalomyelitis outbreaks of equine encephalomyelitis brain fever among horses have been reported from several communities of the state this season and dr D E madsen head of the veterinary science department at utah atall state agricultural college says that while there probably will be no serious outbreak of the disease locally farmers should take preventative steps at once by having their horses vaccinated vaccina ted the chick vaccine that has been developed has been proved beyond a doubt and will ward off the disease whenever it threatens but the vaccine must be used in time alad should be administered by a skill veterinarian it is not a cure but preventative and dr madsen sa that two weeks are arc required beff complete immunity can be guan teed for this reason farmers ahoi vaccinate their animals before I 1 disease enters the community after the animal once contra the malady dr madsen says good care and treatment have pj ed cd to be tile the most beneficial p pr tice ice packs on the head j quiet the animal and ease case the pi large quantities of water are d di able although in some instance is necessary to administer the ter by means of a tube becaas because 61 t ten en a paralysis of the throat wl r the disease will j vent the horse from swallowing nationally the department Dep artmen ol of 01 ri culture has reports on more 1 a thousand cases this year f fron ron different states which is a d di ite increase over the bumbel cumbe numbe cases normally reported for I 1 1 time of year most of this tro seems to be centered in the i west but such extreme point florida and california have reler rc presence of the d disease a for the first time encephala aa the eastern type has been ti west of the mis mississippi 3 riv river c r eastern type is extremely dai de proving fatal about 85 per cell eel the time while the western only kills about 20 or 25 peri 1 of its victims little alarm ova novt eastern type is expressed in arct t LW bality however because all th I 1 es cs that have been found we r the mississippi are in texas i ix s the gulf coast |