How Gats Spread Diphtheria
The medical officer of health for I Btookp<itt has been an important S statement on the spread of diphtheria, j A case was reported to him, add he found in thtf same house a cat suffering from all the outward symptoms of the malady. He had it immediately destroyed. It had made proved by experiment that the vegetable cell, which he reasonably believed to be the source of; the disease, can pass by tho blood current of the cow from the throat or lungs to the milk, and that human beings probably, and cats most certainly, can -be affected with the disease if this uiilk^ unboiled, be taken by them Diphtheria affects the throat of the; cat exactly as it does our own, and it is evident, therefore, how very readily ' this animal may become the zneans' of its distribution. It should b* carefully noted that the disease does. not orginate in either aniiual ; its ;truevsource is putreseent vegetable matter in which a low fungi growth. ITuuriahes. The practical lessuu is that unboiled milk should never be used as food.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 44, 27 September 1890, Page 4
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