Report on foot-and-mouth disease in Ireland in the year 1912 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty.

  • Ireland. Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Report on foot-and-mouth disease in Ireland in the year 1912 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    experiment. In reckoning the results of this experiment it must be remembered that it was not a simple associa- tion ” experiment of affected and healthy animals ; there are additional factors to be considered, in that it was possible that the healthy calves became affected from the previously contaminated pasture, or that the source of mfectron was in the pasture itself. Conclusions. From the above experiments it will be seen that thirteen cattle two pigs, and two sheep, were inoculated m various ways with the virus of this disease, and that m no case was Foot-an - Mouth Disease set up. It will be observed that a1 the cattle , • i showed tvpical lesions of the disease iounu among the cattle in County Armagh, and which were identica with those exhibited by the cattle condemned at Birkenhead. il is very important to note that no reaction whatever occurred in the sheep or pigs although theseL^fhe^^peri- susceptible to Foot-and-Mouth Disease. Cleaily, these expe ments prove that the disease is not Foot-and-Mouth Disea . An endeavour was made to isolate the causal organism A rm n crh disease From cultures obtained from scrapings of fesS various organisms were isolated and them pathogeme negative. 9080—S149. 1500 10/13 B.&N.,Ltd.