Statistics are given on notifiable diseases, quarantine inspection of animals and animal products, the control of biological and antibiotic products for veterinary use, the quantities of the various classes of drugs sold for animal use. and veterinarians in Japan. In horses there were 466 confirmed ...

There were no outbreaks of the following scheduled diseases-rinderpest, glanders, haemorrhagic septicaemia, ephemeral fever, bluetongue, Q fever, dourine, epizootic lymphangitis, equine infectious anaemia, African horse sickness, swine fever, swine erysipelas, canine leishmaniasis, pulloram...

In 1963 there were 1, 508, 000 buffaloes and 796, 000 cattle, which were mainly used as draught animals; 4, 208, 000 pigs; 89, 000 goats; 19, 000 sheep; and 57.7 million fowls. The agricultural high school at Gia Lam, 10 km N.E. of Hanoi has a veterinary faculty, which resumed veterinary education...

Intensification of disease control measures and expansion of departmental activities were commenced with the inauguration of the 5-year reorganization programme. Staff shortages and certain political difficulties precluded full implementation of the first year phase but fortunately the disease...

Cases of lameness were encountered in pigs, some of which yielded haemolytic streptococci. They responded well to treatment with chloramphenicol and vitamin B complex. One case of swine erysipelas was confirmed. A goat that died with mesenteric adenitis and haemorrhagic congestion of the large...

MASTITIS due to Bact. coli and Bact. aerogenes was reported. STAPHYLOCOCCAL MASTITIS is still a problem and does not respond well to streptomycin, streptomycin-penicillin, aureomycin or dibromopropamidine. TUBERCULOSIS appears to be more prevalent in beef cattle than was anticipated. The policy of...

ANTHRAX occurred in 21 quarantined animals and one local pig; 1, 650 animals were immunized. BLACKQUARTER: in one outbreak six cattle died and the remaining 267 were immunized. BRUCELLOSIS: 1, 650 cattle were immunized; there were 5 cases of porcine brucellosis. RABIES has not been reported for...

Anthrax decreased from 368 cases in 1946 to 43 in 1963 and the number of animals vaccinated was 287, 997 in 1946 and 713, 896 in 1962. Rabies decreased from 327 in 1947 to 7 reported cases in 1963, dogs vaccinated annually averaged 150, 000. Dourine was eradicated in 1949. Incidence of swine fever...

This Institute, situated in Erevan, was founded in 1930; up to 1955 it was called the Armenian Veterinary Research Institute. Glanders was eradicated from Armenia in 1944 and rinderpest in 1930. Pasteurellosis in cattle and buffaloes was controlled by the use of a bile-phenol-saponin vaccine and a...