A MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 9

A MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

DOGS IN BRITAIN ATTACKED. MANY DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. A mysterious disease which is attacking dogs of all breeds all over Great Britain has baffled veterinary surgeons. A London veterinary surgeon to id & Daily Mail reporter recently that the disea&e apparently was imported from America about two years ago. It was for some time confined to dogs 'in Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales. Cases also occurred within a radius of 50 miles of Dublin, but recently dogs ail over the country have been affected. There is, the surgeon said, no means at present of preventing or treating the disease. Much alarm is felt among dog breeders and owners of packs of hounds. The disease, which is known as " Mysteria," appears suddenly in dogs of »D age®, from two months up. When attacked they become frenzied with pais and bang their heads against a wall Many cases have occurred of dogs committing tueide in this wsyr. Their eyes Income inflamed and they may also go bhnd temporarily. Owners have mistaken the. disease for rabies aad the dogs have been destroy ©d without investigation; la on® case a dog suddenly attacked ran for ten miles, and was later found in a bog in an exhausted condition. An Aiastian in the first aitemity of the disease rushed at an troe pump ud knocked oat all its front teeth. Post-mortem examination of two affected dogs by a leading fcac(eriologtst of a I/ndbs hospital produced !.;?» c!«e to the cause of the diisease.