CHAPTER XVII. 

 ISOLATION, QUARANTINE, AND DISINFECTION. 



ISOLATION. 



464. Isolation is a preventative measure wherein an animal 

 affected with a contagious disease, or one suspected of such a dis- 

 ease, is separated from the healthy animals and placed by itself. 

 To be effective, isolation must be complete, otherwise it is useless. 

 In summer or in the Tropics, in order to prevent the spreading of 

 disease by flies, diseased animals should be removed to a place at 

 least 200 or 300 yards from the healthy ones and kept within an 

 inclosure having "preferably a double fence, the fences to be sepa- 

 rated by a space of 10 or 12 feet to avoid all possibility of contact 

 with animals which may be on the outside. In winter, the distance 

 between the sick and healthy need not be so great. 



Each isolated animal must be provided with a separate feed box, 

 water bucket, blanket, and grooming outfit, none of which should 

 be removed from the place of isolation until properly disinfected. 

 Only authorized persons should be permitted to enter the place of 

 isolation. Attendants should have no duties which bring them in 

 contact with other animals. They should wear fatigue clothing, 

 and on leaving the place of isolation this clothing should be removed, 

 the hands and face washed with soap and water, and the hands and 

 shoes disinfected. The fatigue clothing should not be removed from 

 the place of isolation until thoroughly disinfected. 



No animal, carcass, forage, bedding, or manure should be removed 

 from the place of isolation without proper authority. As the dung, 

 nasal discharges, etc., of an infected animal often contain the germs, 

 of disease, they, together with all soiled bedding, hay, grain, etc., 

 should be piled up within the corral, saturated with crude oil, and 

 burned, and disinfectants used freely about the stall. This pro- 

 cedure is not only of value in the destruction of infectious material, 

 but also in destroying the breeding places of flies. 



Immediately after an animal has been removed from the stable 

 and placed in isolation, his entire equipment, his stall, the watering 

 trough, the salt boxes, and everything used upon him, and every- 

 thing with which he has been in contact, should be thoroughly- 

 disinfected. 



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