to llUmao life, little act,iull is tak~n. Under these conditions it is only natural that rabies infection is widely disseminated and cases in dogs are lI.Je with so frequently that one becomes very little disturbed by the reports
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cases, after a few monthii r~jdcnce in the country.The Burma Mining Corporation who own property in the extreme nortb~a8t on the Chinn frontier, finding that tbe treatment
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their staff against this disease, interfere cODl'Jiderably with work, have had their property enclosed with jackal proof fencing and no dogs or cate are allowed in thill enclosure.Daily treatment of a small army of suspects is carried out at the Pasteur Institute in Rangoon with carbolated virus with very successful results. No lDortalit:'l' of Europeans has yet been recorded.
The vaccine is also used fo!' t.he prevenf.ion of f.hp. flil'iense ill valuable dogs which ha\'e been exposed to infection. The dog treat.- ment is carried out at lhe hospital of the Veterinar.l' School where also a diagnosis or rabies is occasionally made on animals brought in for treatment.
1.'he position in the East of Burma can be taken as a lair example-is of interest to show the position which can arise in the aiJ6encc of control Ol"cr a long period.
Pap~" No. 35.
A GRAVE SI CKNESS IN DOGS IN EGYP'£, SICKNESS
VERY SIMILAR TO RABIES.By DR. M. CARPk'\O, Chief Specialist of PathoJog,v ami Bacteriology o( the Veterinary Department, Egypt.
WlTn reference to the very interesting communication made by nr. Du '1'oit, on the subject o( Rabies, I wish to bring to your notice' a special affection studied in Egypt during the past month and which with regard to the clinical symptoms and the anatomical pathological lesions has a lot ill common with rabies.
This is why it has becn considered by the Egyptian Vetel'ina- rians as true rabies. Our researehes have established tbat this particular affection is like rabies due to a filterable virus which may be tran&mitted serially to dogs and laboratory animals (rabbit. and guinea pigs).
1.'he aiJection, however, may be differentiated from hydrophobia the (ollowing reasons:-
(1)' 1.'be sick animal has no tendency to bite.
(2) 'fhe inferior maxillary bas never been found to
be
aftected by paralysis.(3) (4)
No negri bodies are found.
The sickness may he transmitted through the blood, con- trarily
