74 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



calling the attention of the Governments in the most solemn and urgent 

 manner to the necessity of considering, without delay and in all thorough- 

 ness, the important matter contained in the article, confident that the 

 Governments would, in their wisdom and as the result of their experience, 

 adopt such measures as to each might seem the most appropriate. 



ARTICLE 12. The Second Pan American Scientific Congress recommends 

 that 



(a) Each country should maintain a well-organized and competent 

 live-stock sanitary service comprising executive officers, field 

 inspectors, and a laboratory force; 



(6) Each country should enforce live-stock sanitary laws and regu- 

 lations with the view of preventing the exportation, impor- 

 tation, and spread within the country of any infectious, con- 

 tagious, or communicable animal disease by means of animals, 

 animal products, ships, cars, forage, etc.; 



(c) Each country should maintain a thorough live-stock sanitary 



survey to determine what communicable diseases of animals 

 are present and the localities where they exist. This infor- 

 mation should be furnished regularly to each of the other 

 countries at stated periods as a matter of routine; 



(d) Each country should refrain from exporting animals, animal 



products, forage, and similar materials which are capable of 

 conveying infectious, contagious, or communicable animal 

 diseases to the receiving country; 



(e) Each country should enforce measures to prohibit the importa- 



tion of animals, animal products, forage, and other materials 

 which may convey diseases from countries where dangerous 

 communicable diseases such as rinderpest, foot-and-mouth 

 disease, and contagious pleuropneumonia exist, and which 

 have no competent live-stock sanitary service. Animals, 

 animal products, forage, and similar materials from countries 

 maintaining a competent live-stock sanitary service may be 

 admitted under proper restrictions, regulations, and inspec- 

 tion, imposed by the importing country; 



(/) Each country, through its live-stock sanitary service, should 

 endeavor to control and, if possible, eradicate the communi- 

 cable animal diseases existing therein. There should be an 

 exchange of information as to the methods followed which 

 have proved most successful in combating animal diseases; 



