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Butte Semi Weekly Miner
Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana
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A mysterious cattle disease, suspected rabies, has killed 21 head near Blue River, Nebraska, after a mad dog bit herds two months ago. Dr. Billings investigated and noted symptoms matching rabies except for lack of biting wounds.
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It will be of interest to the cattlemen of Montana to read the following from a Lincoln (Neb.) paper: "The cattle plague among the herds on the Blue river, forty miles southwest of here, still continues. Up to this time twenty-one head have fallen from the mysterious disease, which is supposed to be rabies. About two months ago a mad dog was seen to enter two pastures and bite a number of cattle on those ranches. Dr. Billings, of the veterinary school of the Nebraska University, returned yesterday from the Blue River country, where he has been for the past week investigating the trouble among the herd. He said that it was singular that fifteen cattle died within a period of forty-eight days after the attack. All that died showed the same symptoms, exactly corresponding to those given by veterinarian authors as those of rabies in cattle, except that the afflicted beasts did not bite or gnaw the spot of the wound."
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Blue River, Forty Miles Southwest Of Lincoln (Neb.)
Event Date
About Two Months Ago
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twenty-one head have fallen from the mysterious disease
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The cattle plague among the herds on the Blue river still continues. A mad dog was seen to enter two pastures and bite a number of cattle about two months ago. Dr. Billings investigated for the past week and noted that fifteen cattle died within forty-eight days after the attack, showing rabies symptoms except no biting or gnawing of the wound.