Aids to stockowners / by J. Walker.

  • John Walker
Date:
1930
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Credit: Aids to stockowners / by J. Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Inununisation of Imported Stork Pure-bred or other cattle importer] from countries where rindeipest does not exist, e.g. Great Britain, South Africa, et.c., are highly susceptible, and it ts sometimes didicult even when a high index dose of anti-serum is used to control the reaction to rinderpest, and double inoculation is not generally recommended. Imported British cattle and some South African cattle are susceptible to the redwater and anaplasmosis of Kenya Colony, and should it be necessary to immunise them by the simultaneous method precautions should be taken to use rinderpest blood free of these infections, or if not available, fresh nasal virus collected from a rinderpest reacting beast during the second day of the temperature reaction could be substituted. The immunisation (simultaneous method) of imported cattle which have recently recovered from redwater and gallsickness immunisation is not recommended owiim to O the risk of recurrences of these infections consequent on the rinderpest reactions. Double inoculation should not be carried out— (a) when cattle are in poor condition ; (b) when the grazing is poor; (c) in wet weather; (d) when animals are recovering from diseases such as redwater, gallsickness, etc. Ihe dipping of cattle when reacting to rinderpest is not recommended. Antiseptic precautions should be taken in carrying out the inoculations. All vessels used for containing serum should be boiled for fifteen minutes prior to use. Syiinges and needles should be sterilized in boiling water prior to and frequently during operations. The hands of operators should be washed prior to com¬ mencement and also after completion of the double inoculation. The site of injection should be washed with an antiseptic such as 5 per cent solution of Jeyes’ or 2 per cent lysol. Abscess formation sometimes appears at the site of the serum injection. This seems to occur particularly in cases where absorption o! the serum is not aided by rubbing and where the hair at the site of injection has not been previously
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