ANAEMIA IN PIGS
SUSOEIHTBILITY TO DISEASE
An important discovery by Dr. R. A. Craig, of Purdue University, in connection with some investigations of anaemia in young pigs, is reported in the Australian press. He found that • -urs suffering from anaemia, are much more susceptible to infections by the organism which causes sore mouth-, bull nose, and necrosis of the inner wall of the small intestines than are noil-anaemic. Anaemic .pigs were inoculated with a suspension of necrotic material from the bull-nose lesions in a young pig. Tlie inoculations were highly effective in causing necrotic sores. Non-anaemic pigs, inoculated with material from the same source, showed nothing more than .slight inflammation at the point of inoculation from which they recovered within three, or four davs.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 January 1931, Page 13
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124ANAEMIA IN PIGS Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 January 1931, Page 13
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