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ing places or feed -boxes. The sick animals should be 

 separated from the others by some distance, and their lo- 

 cation be such that the drainage is away from the healthy 

 animals. Affected animals should not be allowed access 

 to streams, as the infection may be carried by the water. 



Some diseases are carried from sick to healthy ani- 

 mals by means of flies or other insects. When sick 

 animals are confined in buildings it is possible to pro- 

 tect them from insects, so that this source of danger 

 is eliminated. Should other cases of the disease occur 

 among animals that have been removed from the sick, 

 the healthy animals should again be separated from 

 the sick and removed to other non- infected quarters. 



When animals have been quarantined, a separate 

 attendant should be secured to care for the sick ones. 

 If this is not possible, the attendant should care for 

 the healthy animals first, and after caring for the sick 

 should provide himself with a change of clothing. In 

 handling contagious diseases, precautions should always 

 be taken that the attendant does not himself become 

 infected; for some diseases, among them glanders, an- 

 thrax, probably tuberculosis and some parasitic diseases, 

 may be communicated from animals to man. 



