Handbook on contagious and infectious diseases in animals / issued by the Quartermaster General's Branch, General Headquarters, India.
- Date:
- [1944?]
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: Handbook on contagious and infectious diseases in animals / issued by the Quartermaster General's Branch, General Headquarters, India. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The disease in some respects may simulate Glanders Farcy, but the latter is distinguished by the Mallein test. Vesicular Exanthema may also complicate Dourine. The former is a benign disease, mant- festing itself from one to six days after “covering ’’ by heat and swelling of the genitals with subsequent formation of vesicles, pus- tules and scabs. The disease passes off in three wecks, leaving white patches (leucoderma) on the tissues of the external genital organs. How to deal with an outbreak, or oases. t. On the ePappPar ange of the disease in India, the poliey te be adopted is one of ‘stamping out’’ by destruction of all affected cases, mares aw stallions. ‘This can readily be effected owing to horse and mulc breeding being under Government control as before mentioned, 2. Should thero be reoccurrence, the following measures would be necessary in districts where the disease prevails; — Q) Carefully inspect all mares about) to be put to the horse. Refuse all- mares that have a ‘discharge from the vulva, other than ordinary manifestation of. cstrum, or shewing any swelling of that part. Refuse mares shewing suspicious odematous swellings in any other region; also, old and wonkly mares, 2) Fixarhine the stallion's penis frequently and carefull. If there is the slightest lesion on it, he must not be used until all doubt as to its na€ure has passed away. Special care shonld he exercised in the periedie examination of jack donkeys employed for mule breeding. (3) Cireulate all information possible to breeders and owners of mares ag to the nature of the disease, - (4y Enforce immediate reporting of the discasc in both stallions and 6) Interdict the sale or removal of mares from an infected district. (6) Tf the malady has spread in a district stop the use of all stal. lions the property of Government or private property. (7) Destroy all affected animale; assess value for compensation. Treatment is of little avail; the disease is always protracted, and considering the small] percentage of recoveries it is unwise to resort “ it. In countries where it is practised, it is usual to castrate affected stallions and to brand affected mares with a large D to exclude them -for breedihig purposes,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32173519_0268.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
