In view of the relationship of the veterinary profession to food inspection, and because of the war-time-changes in methods of food processing, packing and distribution, this small volume, though intended primarily for the medical practitioner, ought to prove useful to the veterinarian.
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No cases of rabies, rinderpest, foot and mouth disease, swine fever, contagious bovine pleuropneu-monia, anthrax or surra were encountered. In buffaloes, HAEMORRHAGIC SEPTICAEMIA never seems to occur in epidemic form, although Pasteurella multocida is occasionally isolated. ASCARIS INFECTION of...

In this condensed note, the diseases reported are: arbovirus infections; rabies; Newcastle disease; Q fever; bacterial diseases, including anthrax, brucellosis, enterobacterial infections, sal-monellosis, leptospirosis and tuberculosis; fungal diseases, including ringworm; protozoal diseases,...

There was an existing outbreak of FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE in the Wankie Native District at the beginning of the year. Two other outbreaks were recorded, one in the same district and one in the Beitbridge Native District. Both the Wankie outbreaks were due to virus S.A.T.I, and that at Beitbridge to...

STRUCK is reported in sheep in the Punjab; Cl. perfringens type C was isolated from the intestinal contents of an affected sheep. In studies on OVINE PNEUMONIA, sheep were inoculated s/c or i/v with a formol Corynebacterium pyogenes[Arcanobacterium pyogenes] vaccine. Two months later they were...

This should be read in conjunction with the abstracts of the reports of the Assistant Directors Field and Research which follow and deal in more detail with special points of interest. A regular intake of professional staff is now envisaged under the Government Bursary Scheme for training. An...

The state continued to remain free of major epidemics; no cases of rabies, foot and mouth disease, swine fever, anthrax, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, or surra were encountered. Buffa loes are the most important domestic animal, with an estimated population of 80, 000; they are used as work...

II. A pasteurella was isolated from the milk of cows in one herd for over 12 months. Affected cows showed acute MASTITIS with ropy milk and there were severe systemic effects. Lancefield Group 0 streptococci were recovered from a herd in which 20 of 25 cows showed systemic effects and painful...

For the third successive year no cases of EAST COAST FEVER were diagnosed. There were 42 cases of BENIGN BOVINE GONDERIOSIS. BESNOITOSIS was diagnosed in several bulls on a farm about 50 miles from the ranch where it occurred in 1962. There was no record of any cattle movement between the farms....

TUBERCULOSIS of bovine strain continues to be found commonly in buffaloes and feral pigs. Some acid-fast, atypical strains of bacilli of low virulence were found in pigs and buffaloes. In a herd of cattle near the South Australian border with a history of high incidence 3.9% of reactors were found...