HUKSE SICKNESS. 



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Tlie luiig form is fatal iu at least 99 per cent, of the eases. 

 Ill fact, many persons who had a wide experience of horse sickness 

 lold me, when I was in South Africa, that they never knew a case 

 uf the lung form recover. The other varieties are said to be less 

 dangerous to life, although the mortality from them is very high. 



SE,\SOX OF ArPEAKAiXCE.— In Cape Colony and Orange 

 Kiver Colony it rarely occurs before February, although m lS9l' 

 It broke oiu iu the Eastern Province early m January. It is 

 usually at its worst iu April, and as a I'ule disappears with the 



Fig. 145A. — Death from .South African Horse-sickness. 



Ill SI frost in May. It begins about the end of October in the 

 Transvaal and Rhodesia. In Natal it generally begins on the 

 sea-coast a little before Christmas ; at Maritzburg, about Februar}' ; 

 and up country, somewhat later. March and April are the worst 

 montlis. Occasional cases are met with even in the winter on 

 tlie coast. One undoubted instance occurred near Ladysniith 

 during the Boer war in 1881, in July or Augu.st, when the ground 

 was covered with snow. 



TRANSMISSION FROM ONE HORSE TO ANOTHER HORSE. 



— Experience amply proves that the disease is never, under natural 

 conditions, communicated from one horse to another horse. It is 



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