Diseases

Extract

A new international Menace? Pseudo-Fowl-Plague.

From a letter sent by a member in India to the Editor:

„We are very much troubled in India with a new disease. We call it the „Raniklet” disease, as it was first noted there in August 1927. Birds were sent to our Imperial Veterinary Research Institute for investigation. They could find nothing but succeeded in transmitting the disease from the mouth exudate to pigeons or other fowls. It proved to be a filterable virus and symptoms include gaping, catarrh, foul crop. Death follows in 3 days. It is intensely infectious and has devastated native fowls as well as European birds.