Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1918 — “FLU" EPIDEMIC IS KILLING HOGS [ARTICLE]

“FLU" EPIDEMIC IS KILLING HOGS

Aurora, IH.» Dec. 30.—Hogs are dying by scores of influenza and pneumonia in and around Aurora. The epidemic, which farmers say is as bad as the hog cholera of other years, seems to be centered in the rich farming districts of Wheatland and Plainfield. , . Adam, Jack and Charles Clow and James McMicken, of Wheatland, have already lest about SIO,OOO worth of hogs in the last two weeks. The animals seem to have all the symptoms of the disease which afflicts human beings. They are being given the seruip vaccination treatment. The animals contract a cough and acute pneumonia sets in.