FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE
HEDGEHOGS AS CARRIERS PROOF IN ENGLAND LONDON, August 21. Hedgehogs are carriers of foot-and-mouth disease. Definite proof that the disease occurs in hedgehogs and can be transmitted to cattle is contained in the latest report of the research committee which has been investigating the disease for the past 13 years. Scientists discovered foot and mouth virus in a hedgehog which showed no visible signs of the disease, although it was found on an infected Somerset farm. Two healthy calves were inoculated with the hedgehog virus. Healthy hedeghogs placed in contact with the infected calvec died within four or five days. Transmission from hedgehogs to cattle was proved when a healthy cow contracted the disease after being placed in a stall with four infected hedgehogs. The virus recovered from the first hedgehog was of the same type as that obtained from affected cattle on the farm where it was found. The investigators state that it seems probable that this hedegehog acquired the dis ease from the cattle.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 13
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168FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 13
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