Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — BUFFALO BEING VACCINATED [ARTICLE]

BUFFALO BEING VACCINATED

Infectious Disease Which Kills Its Vlotim in Every Case Alarming Grand Forks, N. D. —Dr. W. S. Newman, government veterinary inspector from Bismarck, N. D., has gone to Yellowstone National Park, where he is vaccinating 250 buffalo which belong to the government. There are also twenty-two head of buffalo calves In the herd. An infectious disease, known as hemorrhagic septicaemia, has appeared among the buffalo in the park with deadly effect The mortality of this disease among domestic cattle has been placed at 90 per cent., but among the buffalo it has proved 100 per cent., not a single one attacked escaping death. The authorities are puzzled to know how the disease was communicated to the buffalo In the Interior of the park, as It Is generally communicated through food, and there has been no way In whlclTthese animals have been exposed that is known. The disease is of short duration, generally taking the animal away within twenty-four hours after It develops. This disease originally came from Egypt and Germany, first appearing a few years ago In Minnesota and later In Tennessee. That the disease which has appeared among the buffalo of national park is the same as above mentioned has been proved beyond doubt on government laboratory diagnosis. Two vaccinations are necessary, the second being administered eight days after the first. The authorities are much concerned over the appearance of this disease among the buffalo herd of lhe national park and are endeavoring to ward off any further fatalities.