Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1948 — Page 11

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SUNDAY, OCT. 31, 1948

Cattle Herds Hit by Mystery Malady X -

Mortality Rate 59%

Among Cattle

By VICTOR PETERSON Times Btaft Writer

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 31—

A new and baffling disease Is "striking Indiana cattle, [ Called X disease, it already has struck six Herds in Porter, Knox, | Hendricks, Hancock, Hamilton and Boone Counties. The mor-! tality rate is 59 per cent of those! affected. {

To date, it has: not reached, :

-...alarming proportions, and less than 300 head of the state's 1-/ 798,000 cattle have been stricken. However, the dread disease has been noted in 32 states. Grimly, Purdie University wei: entists have joined others over| the nation in hopes of finding the cause and a cure, Only failures have resulted. | A thorough search of medical records, old and new, have dis-| closed no previous mention of the malady. , | It first was described and ding-| nosed as a new disease In New| York state in 1941, From areas in which it has appeared, it seems|

to have crept slowly from the sponsored by the Missouri Luth-|

East to South to Midwest to) West. It was not known in Indiana until early this year. Then! Hoosier farmers began reporting - it to local veterinarians. At Purdue, Dr. Jerry J. Calls has been assigned to study the disease.’ New on the staff, hel comes from Alabama where he previously had noted the strange| {llness, | All efforts to transmit the dis-| ease from affected to healthy! cattle have failed. Neither have scientists been able to transmit] it to customary laboratory ani-| mals such as mice or guinea pigs. | Cultures have not taken effect on chick eggs. | However, scientists lean toward the theory it is communicable for

the manner in which it sweeps a)

herd. As yet there is no indication humans or other livestock are susceptible to it. Under study as possible causes are infectious. virus, poisonous materials in plant life, soils and fertilizers and nutritional imbalances, - Except to owners of affected herds, the disease has ‘not become of great economic importance to the cattle industry,

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niversity veterinary scientists are working feverishly to find -the.cause.and.a cure for a mysterious malady dealing death to Indiana cattle. Exam. ining this affected animal, are (left to right) Dr. Jerry J. Callis and Dr. Max Lowe. The" | disease now has appeared in 32 states. There have been six outbreaks in Hoosierland..

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