Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — Horses and the Grip. [ARTICLE]

Horses and the Grip.

More than fifty thousand horses in New York city are disabled by a disease which the veterinary surgeons say Is the grip. The symptoms are the same as those shown by human beings with that disease, Including the suddenness of the attack and the subsequent weakness and collapse. The percentage of deaths among the horses also appears to foe about the same as that among people when the grip first appeared in its virulent form. The greatest loss to the owners of horses is caused by the inability of the animals to work during the week or two in which the disease runs its course.