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Concord Register
Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
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In Elizabethtown, N.J., around 40 cattle died suddenly over two to three weeks, likely from poisonous vegetation amid drought. Two workers died from infection while skinning carcasses. No cases reported after recent showers.
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We learn that, within two or three weeks, as many as forty head of cattle have suddenly died in this town and its vicinity. This mortality is supposed to have been occasioned by some poisonous substance eaten by them while vegetation suffered so much from the drought. The work of death was very rapid; in some instances cattle dropped down in the yoke, and in five minutes from the time the first symptoms of disease were discernible, life became extinct. It is understood that no cases have occurred since the late showers.
We are informed that in two instances the persons employed in skinning cattle which had died suddenly, have lost their lives from the infection taken from them.
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Primary Location
Elizabethtown (N. J.)
Event Date
Within Two Or Three Weeks
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as many as forty head of cattle died suddenly; two persons lost their lives from infection while skinning the cattle. no cases have occurred since the late showers.
Event Details
Cattle in Elizabethtown and vicinity died rapidly after eating poisonous substance from drought-affected vegetation; some dropped dead in the yoke within five minutes of first symptoms. Persons skinning the dead cattle contracted fatal infection in two instances.