Bovine Tuberculosis Classic Reprint

Author : J. George Adami
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528199049
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book On the Significance of Bovine Tuberculosis and Its Eradication and Prevention in Canada (Classic Reprint) written by J. George Adami and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Significance of Bovine Tuberculosis and Its Eradication and Prevention in Canada This rise in percentage of tuberculous cattle seen in the slaughter houses at Leipzig from per cent. To per cent. In seven years is veritably appalling, and no other explanation can be afforded than that the disease, in Germany at least, is spreading with terrible rapidity. So much indeed is this the case that competent authorities there are of Opinion that in a few years there will be no breeding herds left unaffected. If, '1n place of the slaughter -house statistics, we take those afforded by the tuberculin test, the percentage of cases found 1n animals other than yearlings 's yet higher than those afforded by the slaughter-houses. In Germany and Denmark veterinarians have come to the conclusion that the amount of tuberculosis is over 50 per cent. Of all the animals in the land, many large farms being found without a single sound animal. In other words, about half the animals in northern and western Europe would seem to be afflicted with tuberculosis. Corresponding statistics for Britain do not exist, nevertheless the conditions there, it would seem, are scarcely if at all more favorable. Thus in the County of Midlothian, abbatoir statistics show the existence of the disease in 22 per cent. Of the animals slaughtered, in Yorkshire a percentage of Durham and in London 25 per cent. These, be it remembered, are slaughter house results and not those derived from the tuberculin test. In fact, tuberculosis among the most valuable and most highly bred herds is so extensive that extreme precautions should be taken and stringent contracts made by the buyer as well as stringent regula tions framed and carried out by the Government to insure that, however great the cost of the individual cow or bull imported, the animal be found perfectly sound and unaffected by the disease before it is permitted to enter the country. Personally, though in this I speak in no official capacity, I am inclined to think that, taking into consideration the fact that if once an animal has been inoculated with tuberculin it may not give a second reaction until more than a month has elapsed, I would urge that all cattle imported for breeding purposes be kept in quarantine for six weeks at least, and only permitted to be delivered to owners in this country if at the end of that period they fail to react. Otherwise, by any other course, there is a distinct danger that the disease may be introduced into herds previously quite free from the disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.