American Veterinary Review. 
EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
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Paris, April 15, 1912. 
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FoUt-and-Mouth Disease. —When in England an outbreak 
' rial pest makes its appearance, or even when in the 
M°hrF’ es a simhar event occurs, the measures to prevent its 
spreading, to limit iC dent, to guard against its contagion, are 
readily put into force, nitary regulations are immediately im¬ 
posed, and the knacker is the master; all the dangerous animals— 
diseased, contaminated, exposed—are destroyed and their car¬ 
casses put in condition where no more harm can be looked for. 
That England and the United States can protect themselves after¬ 
wards by most careful watching, by most severe quarantine, is 
then comparatively a simple task. 
O11 the Continent of Europe the state of affairs is different. 
The various countries almost form but one immense field, where 
at various intervals, here and there, the disease will appear and 
gradually spread from one to another by the many opportunities 
and various conditions of the distribution of the virus, and when 
it has affected such immense numbers of animals that their im¬ 
mediate slaughter would be probably not even the guardian of 
those which would have escaped, but would mean the complete 
ruin of the animal wealth of that country, what is to be done ? 
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