Disease Outbreak Threatens Eureka Flat
County officials dispatch a veterinarian to investigate a reported case of glanders among livestock near Clyde.
Complaint has been filed with the county commissioners that glanders has broken out among the horses on Eureka flat near Clyde. One mule is said to be very badly afflicted and there is danger of the disease spreading among the bands of horses which are being pastured in that section. Deputy State Veterinary H. P. Raker went to Clyde this morning to investigate the report.
“One mule is said to be very badly afflicted and there is danger of the disease spreading.”
Glanders, a serious zoonotic disease, was a constant concern for 19th-century agricultural economies. The rapid intervention by the state veterinarian highlights the reliance on healthy working animals for the region's prosperity.
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